Call the Midwife has shared an update on season 14 filming, teasing an important scene for one specific character.
A post on the show's official Instagram account teased that production will wrap up very soon, with post-production work such as editing and extra dialogue recording still required to turn the footage into finished episodes.
"With all this talk of endings, we thought we'd share a little technical detail from this behind-scenes picture of Zephryn Taitte (Cyril), as he completes a close up for an important S14 scene," the caption reads.
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"Do you notice those clapperboards in the picture? They are strangely turned upside-down. This isn't some absent-minded mistake on behalf of the camera crew, but a deliberate way to differentiate a filmed 'take' known in the industry as an 'end slate', or 'end board'."
The post continued by explaining: "Sometimes we don't want to interrupt our filming by starting a new take with the clapperboard – maybe we want to go straight for a second try, or we don't want to break up the emotional mood the actors have built up."
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On these occasions, the team will mark an end point in the footage for the editor by holding up the clapperboard upside down at the end of a take.
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"Our actors are no strangers to end slates and emotional moods... and let's just say this last episode has been very full of emotional end slates," the post also notes.
In short, whatever happens in the scene, the team felt it was too emotional and important to break up the flow of filming or the atmosphere on set by stopping and starting.
Before all that though, we're getting this year's Call the Midwife Christmas special, which will feature a trip to the fun fair and will be a two-parter for the first time ever.
Call the Midwife airs on BBC One and streams on iPlayer.
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