A conversation between me and one of my actors would go something like this.
I don't really know how Patrick wants us to write up our blogs now, seeing as what I was doing is apparently "wrong" (a stark contrast to what literally everyone else who reads them says, they say they love them, and the flow of my writing, and it's so funny, and awesome, and so me. Hmm. Listen to the audience, or listen to the tutor.)
Today was my first shoot day of my short film/web series The Cat Kids. A very interesting day. Yeah, I do things a little differently to other Filmies. I don't care. I do what works for me. 9am call time for cast, they were in Make Up until about 12. Didn't go as smoothly as we would have wanted, but we got their in the end, and I'm very happy with what Anna brought to the film's look. She did a great job. A+ to Anna. Started shooting a little while after that, with my way of taking lines and giving them specific shots. There wasn't many shots that required more than one line so I had about 30 shots to shoot today. I don't make shots complicated by worrying about the little iddy bitty things in it. I frame, expose, shoot, and if it looks good, I'll move on to the next one. If something's off, I go again. For example, I have one shot where I'm in a car that's tracking alongside a couple of actors running down the street. It's very hard to drive a car and keep in time with running actors, because you have to go quite slow, and in a manual it's even harder. I think I got that shot about 10 times. But Rachel's brilliant at driving, so I'm quite happy with it. A+ to Rachel. I did get some very smooth running tracking footage for a couple of seconds that will most likely end up in the film. A+ to my actors for running back and forth so many times, haha. And for being awesome today in general! Tash and Maria and Pete and Tim, you should all be quite happy because you all nailed what I was after. It's quite interesting watching them figure out back story by themselves, just by being the character.
Not everything was peachy today, though. At some point it started to rain, causing me to FREAK DA MUK OUT, ahhh by golly what a nightmare. I do. not. like that kind of stress, Me and Brogan are trying to think of what to do and I'm just soooooo intent on shooting today's scenes TODAY, I REALLY do not want to change the schedule because it's crafted so meticulously, and changing it up would just be horrendous, due different cast and crew members availability. I'm trying so hard to not burst into tears, I just couldn't handle it. I don't know why I'm so emotional these past few months, jeez. SO we came to an agreement that, yes, we have no other option but to shoot Sunday's scene this afternoon, no matter the consequences.We were just about to round everyone up and relocate when the sun came back out. JEEZ. And it didn't rain for the rest of the day! So happy. A+ to Brogan for being the 1st AD, grip, runner, art dept., set mum and literally everything under the sky, haha. You rock. Yeah. It's hard to find available Filmies when it's the end of the year. Did you hear about the craziness I had when trying to sort out a gaff crew? Matt and Cody are on Adam's shoot (which also takes place this weekend), so I asked Corey and Tyler, after Corey mentioned not being on anyone's shoots, and they need the experience. Talking about this to Patrick and I think we both got a bit confused because something to do with not being certified on something, and then Patrick decided Matt and Cody would be on my shoot and Corey and Tyler would be their little Gaff bunnies (but Matt and Cody are on Adam's so whaaaaaat?) and it's just really crazy and I don't know what happened but I had to ask M and C to help but of course I didn't get any reply until I either found them in person or P made them, and they just said what I knew they would, and then it was back to what I had originally planned with Corey and Tyler being the Gaffers so they can fill in their requirement of being on a year 2 shoot, and to gain some experience points. MY GOD. WHAT WAS ALL THE FUSS ABOUT THEN. Ahhh. So anyway, A+ to Arjun for being awesome on sound and pointing out all the noises. He's a cool guy to have around. I'm looking forward to seeing everyone tomorrow for day two, where we can have some fun biting off ears etc. mwahaha.
Hey, here are some photos :D
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