Actually, they were very enthusiastic about the project from the word go - the fact that it's considerably different to the run of the mill short film was a sig

Actually, they were very enthusiastic about the project from the word go - the fact that it's considerably different to the run of the mill short film was a significant draw, I think. I think that hacker types like us underestimate just how novel the approaches we take can be for people in the outside world, as it were. Joanna put it best, IMO: "There's an old phrase in acting which is "stay in the boat." As things change, stay in the boat. Don't go 'oh, I would never dream of doing that' or 'oh we didn't do that, I haven't been trained'. Just learn and stick with it and find out how it is going. Because you'll be able to find that a) you'll be able to contribute quite a lot more than you thought you would, but secondly you can't afford to be divorced from new methods of entertainment."