Elements

To Bryanston School at the invitation of Chloe Bentinck in the English department to talk to the Upper Sixth about the film - part of their Current Affairs programme. A week’s editing means there is no time to write a speech (a huge relief for everyone). Instead Simon puts the constituent shots of one of our scenes on a DVD and we talk through how it was imagined, shot and assembled. Stess and Lara help with an impromptu drama workshop. Aeneas (good heroic name) heroically helps illustrate camera angles. Rupert, the size and width of two men (a rugby player) gives a masterclass in comic timing. I bring a camera to take a photograph of the hundred or so people there, thinking, now they’ll have to sign up for the film - and then I forget to do it. Afterwards we walk through the chemistry department. Remember those dog-eared periodic tables in labs of yore? Here they have a periodic table, with every element there, in situ - vials of sodium and potassium, a hunk of lead, an ingot of titanium, silver, gold. The inert gases light up when you walk past. Not much to do with the film - but quite cool anyway.

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