Camera-crew await 'lining
up the shot' : James (DOP and operator, behind camera), Richard
(focus puller, right), Sandra (loader, absent), Durga (centre,
right), Andy the 'grip' (centre, leaning on the dolly) and Ramesh
the 'gaffer' (left) and the rest of their gang. Regularly doing
over thirty camera set-up's each day and lighting each one in
40+ degrees of heat was hard work for everyone concerned - but
camera and lighting get little rest or respite during filming
as they are obviously required for each and every shot wherever
it might be. Sharpe's Peril used two cameras on average - and
at times three and sometimes, four.
In the lead-up to the
final battle scene during the cavalry-charge, Andy the grip of
Sharpe's Peril set a new 'world-record' for a tracking-shot on
Sharpe in laying over eighty metres of track (which was duly
nicknamed the 'India Grand Trunk Railway') seen here with the
horses lining-up just before the actual shot. The 'dolly-trolley'
which will carry the camera in the shot is seen far-left and
during the shot under Andy's control reached a speed of 30 miles
per hour. |