Another wrap
Today marked the second day of shooting for my Junior cinema production.
This shoot seemed cursed from the start. After scrolling through 3 different lead actresses, 2 different lead actors, and 3 different supporting actresses, some of these recasts taking place in the past week(!), we finally had our talent.
Quick recap of the other trials and tribulations thus far:
Location 1 - Restaurant - Projected time: 10am - 9pm - Actual time: 10am - 5pm - Manager implied that we could be on location as long as we needed to. Then 66% of the way through our shoot, we were informed at 415 that at 5, we had to vacate because they needed to seat the section we were working in.
Location 2 - Studio Apartment - Projected time: 830am - 11pm - Actual time: 830am - 430pm - Due to a lack of communication with a difficult homeowner, we were forced to leave this location as well. After a panic stricken hour of being terrified to tell my director, we had to spontaneously come up with a new place to shoot.
Location 3 - My brother’s house - Projected time: Unplanned - Actual time - 7pm - 330am - Our last resort was to finish our shoot at my house, which belongs to my brother. 99% of the time, my brother and his girlfriend are either in the house doing nothing of particular interest, or both working. Tonight, they were entertaining guests. We were able to get in and shoot the rest of our scenes, even though our sound has a lot of background noise because none of us felt we were in a place to ask anyone to keep it down, since we showed up unannounced at the last moment.
We got the rest of the shots on today’s list. We just have to pick up some shots next week, do some green screening, and record some dub.
Wish me luck.
3 years ago