For this installment of my own recollections of the making of the film “GallowWalker” in Namibia at the end of 2006, I actually have some making-of videos that I put together at the time (with the help of Nicky Matthew, who shot the footage for the official making-of, which I assume, will eventually accompany the DVD whenever the film is released in whatever form) which were intended to sort of give periodic status reports back to the investors in the UK.
Despite the rosy, positive tone most of the crew tried to maintain, things were becoming increasingly tense down on location, especially for the creative types, who were starting to hit the wall where the money the investors seemed to be willing to spend had ended. They layer of foggy gloom that hung over Swakopmund most days didn’t help matters any, and it seemed the only escape was to get out on location and work on sets or at least soak up some atmosphere, in the African sun where the movie would hopefully, actually be shot one day.
So preparations moved forward, as the video below shows, toward a start of principal photography which was rapidly approaching. Note: I shot this video very awkwardly on a mini-DV camera, and then compressed the hell out of it for the web, so the quality is so-so. The other two videos that follow this one were from a Hi-Def source and are subsequently better.
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