Monday, 2 July 2007
And so we come to the end of this little saga....
With the filming, or at least the Bowen section thereof, completed we can move back to normality. Now all we need to do is to work out what normality is....
One thing is for certain - what people in Bowen will be regarding as normality in the future will be substantially different from what we’ve known in the past. Not that the difference will necessarily be something you will be able to put your finger on and say There it is...
Or, on the other hand, maybe it will...
Looking back over the last week, even over the last three days’ filming the flow of out-of-towners continued, but I started to pick up a new theme in their comments...
I thought this was finished a long time ago....
In other words, in the initial wave of media exposure, the message that filming was going to run for six or seven weeks went missing in action.
In a way that’s hardly surprising. If the movie was being made under normal circumstances they would have been working on a closed set somewhere like Fox Studios in Sydney. There would have been the initial blaze of publicity and after that the crew would have quietly gone about their business and the outside world would have been none the wiser unless something totally out of the ordinary occurred.
And, under normal circumstances if the crew needed to venture out to a spot where they’d attract media attention they’d be out there for as long as they needed to put together THAT bit of footage before they bolted back behind closed doors.
As the song goes no one knows what goes on behind closed doors...
Given the set’s location at the bottom of Bowen’s main street, it’s hardly surprising that the time the film crew have spent here has created a plethora of memories, digital images, rumours, yarns, autographs and random sightings that will take some people months to collate and sort out...