Jitters About Tomorrow
Friday, March 27th, 2009We 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!
Today was a good day. We shot at a house we hadn’t been in since last July (talk about a blast from the past). We needed to reshoot one side of a conversation because of some issues so we bagged that first 
Today was an interesting day. There was a scheduling conflict that forced us to dump anything we planned on shooting today and we had to fill the day somehow. The day itself and every other day this week and next will be short except Saturday. So we couldn’t figure out what we could do and just decided to do one of the Behind the Scenes interviews we were going to need. We shot Rob Reismans interview today and it went very well. I ended up with over an hour and a half of footage to sort through of really excellent content. It will be very useful for promotion of the film and the documentary of making the film. I was really excited to watch Rob talk about stuff he remembers, the hardships on set, the support of his family and church during the whole process, and overall what the film really means to him.
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Today was an excellent shooting day. We accomplished more than we ever have in one day as far as I know. The first scenes of the day were intense having both our leads yelling and arguing with each other. Both went off without a hitch. This week seems to have both Eric and Rob pulling out some of their best work, at critical points in the film. God has really had his hand on these past 2 days of shooting, especially today. The other scenes were completed without problems, one of them having a LONG setup time. I can’t/won’t tell you why because it’ll spoil the film. Either way it was difficult but we pulled it off. Thank you to everyone for praying for this week of shooting. The next days shoot had to be cancelled for a scheduling problem out of our control. It’s unknown when our next day of shooting will be to continue completing the rest of the needed portions of the film. Don’t worry, we’ll be fine. Just the past two days has accounted for the majority of what is left, and the most difficult. It’s all downhill from here, and we’re already rolling along quickly.
We started reshoots and pickups today. We were in Dave Giffords house today (Dave is playing John Corwin, Dave Corwins father). The room we were in all day was the living room. It had lots of texture and things on the walls, lots of wood furniture and other things. We shot a conversation between Dave and his father first. It was really good. Rob (playing Dave) did a fantastic job. In a very emotional moment in their 














