Jitters About Tomorrow
We are shooting again tomorrow. Should be the majority of the day from about 9am (get there earlier to unpack), and go until dinner time. We have a lot to shoot and there are some factors still left that I hope work out. One of them includes a short sequence I came up with a few months ago. I don’t have every shot 100% planned (yet) and I can’t afford to come back to this house or use Eric (playing Steven) again. This puts the pressure on to forget absolutely nothing and make sure I have it properly planned. This whole time we’ve been prepping the week of things or the days before. Once we started behind in prep, your always in catch up mode and never have enough time to really get ahead of yourself. Prep might be my least favorite part of the process just because the way we’ve shot this film the prep almost never really helps the day too much. We’re dealing with factors that might normally be under someone’s control. We are working with a new actor tomorrow as well and I need him to pull this off, I really need him to work. If he doesn’t, there really isn’t anyone else to do it. I also chose him because the lines he has to say he said to me in real life with the kind of fatherly tone that I”m looking for…so I hope God gives him a nudge and helps him pull it off. I think he can do it, but more often than not on this film, thinking something will work often ends in disaster. Not always so we’ll see what happens.
I think the hardest part about making this film on top of everything else is making it alone. Yes I have a few crew members, yes I have actors for every scene and locations to use and everything that I could ask for. What I don’t have is a second person to help with the meat of the producing. Or someone to just run things by and get second opinions. Not that I can really trust of course. Some people I know online have been the biggest help and really given me a leg up in certain situations but while I’ve been cutting the film for instance…certain things you think are OK aren’t and I need someone to concur with. To tell me “that sucks, fix it.” I do have people like that but not here with me. Especially when it comes to designing scenes and making a shot list. Someone with fresh ideas really helps get the juices flowing. I come up with ideas simply by re-explaining my own and boom something hits me and I run with it. So that has made it difficult. Just having someone as a bounce board (in person) would be great and I look forward to having that on the next film. I don’t think I’ll work on another project unless I have another producer or something of the sort. It’s way too much to do alone lol.
Writer/Director/DP/Producer/Editor/Marketing&PR/etc. ???? What was I thinking! LOL.
We only have a page and a half of dialog but the rest of the day is full of shots (most of them for that sequence I told you about). Cross your fingers, we don’t have many shooting days after this…we really need to finish this stuff!