The dog days. Strange weather. We wait. We walken the dog. I had to do a panel on the difference between making fiction films and documentary. More pointing with fiction, I find, while recognising nothing of the process that the others talked about with their multi-camera set-ups. It sounded like the same old military chain of command. I was reminded of an old army order that started out as “Send reinforcements the general is going to advance” and somewhere along the line turned into “Send three and sixpence the general is going to a dance.” Incompetence or subversive wit? Hard to tell these days. In another army report someone noted in the margin “round objects”, meaning balls, against which someone else wrote “Who is Round and why does he object?”