merlinlocations | Pierrefonds

Please be warned that these reports and the photos on Flickr now contain some totally serious casting (guest and recurring), costume, and prop spoilers.

After the heat of yesterday, it was a great joy to me to wake up and find that it was raining. Not sure if the crew much appreciated the rain, but then I don't think they'd enjoyed the heat very much either! The weather was quite changeable all day, creating delays, and culminating in a thunderstorm. At which point I called it a day! Presumably the poor cast and crew had to soldier on.

Filming started around the middle of the day. Angel filmed a short scene in the courtyard in that gorgeous red dress. And then Angel and Tom were down in the dungeons filming with Alice Troughton for much of the rest of the day.

Meanwhile, just about everyone else was up in the courtyard, filming a scene involving Arthur, Merlin and the other knights (Leon, Gwaine, Elyan) preparing to ride off on an adventure, along with the awesome Princess Mithian (Janet Montgomery) from last season and an old woman. Gaius was also present, though I wasn't quite sure if he was riding with them or seeing them all off.

Once Colin had done his close-ups, he headed off, and a Merlin-double took his place. The Merlin-double also filmed a brief scene on the drawbridge, of Merlin running into Camelot along with a young man. I'm not sure what Colin was filming or if he had other commitments of some kind.

I've already uploaded my photos to Flickr: you can find them here. You may consider it a promise or a threat, but there's lots of Rupert today!

I should warn you that about halfway through the day I realised that I had stuffed up my camera settings, going back to the heat of the previous evening when Colin was running along the balcony thing. Obviously my brain had just shut down at that point. I don't think it's ruined the shots, but many are rather over-exposed. So it's back to camera school for me!