The Making of Sharpe's Peril

Last Update: 19 Oct 2008

One of the Unit Base-Camps at Bala Sagar at an evocative 17th century fortress near Orchha. After the move back to Khajuraho, the unit camp occupied five acres of land to accommodate all departments, dining-tents, the required transport and all our horses and animals. This particular location involved a 'yomp' of up to 800 metres to the best filming locations, where everyone ended to 'muck-in' by carrying as much gear as possible - usually ending with all our tongues hanging out.

'Shaking-down' is a process that goes along with the first scheduled filmed scenes along with everyone getting to know each other better. Presumably by that time the 'heads-of-department' have satisfied themselves that they are 'ready-to-go' for Day One Filming - but the Armoury Department along with Camera and Costume were still bemoaning several 'omissions' of gear and kit stuck in Customs and elsewhere - but such 'omissions' are only drawn to the attention of Director and 1st AD in the case of extreme emergency and even after Day Three we all still had some - but as usual decisions are left to heads-of-department to handle to the best of their ability in terms of 'make the best of it' in the spirit of the old showbiz adage, 'the show must go on'.

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