So, today was the 1st day of shooting, and all said and done, it went pretty well. We started off strong, got some great steadicam shots, and then moved locations after 2 hours. That took longer than we planned, and then we were missing a critical prop* which forced a rescheduling of the afternoon, and then setting up a hood mount for the camera on a van took much, much longer than I had anticipated.
By 4 o'clock, we were almost three hours behind schedule. But, also, we had just finished the most complicated scenes of the day.
A few pow-wows with my producers and dop later, we chugged down some jet fuel and rocketed along**. Like I said, almost three hours behind, and we wanted to wrap by 8:30 pm...
We popped off the last shot at 8:39, and had shot a total of 8 pages of script. Not too shabby, if I do say so myself. We had to sacrifice a few wish-list shots, but I'd rather make my days than have a movie that makes no sense.
My crew deserves a good pat on the back, and our actors kept us laughing all day. Good times.
Crew call tomorrow is 8 am. We only have about 3 pages to shoot, but it's complicated smoke-machine and slow motion work that will eat up time. I think it'll go mighty fine. I hope.
* We forgot a pair of binoculars, so our props guy had to run to Canadian Tire and buy new ones, and found a cheap pair of Dora the Explorer ones that were bright yellow and freaking funny on camera. A good example of when things go bad, they can quickly turn around even better.
**No jet fuel was harmed in the making of this production. Pi Day: The Movie! does not recommend you actually drink jet fuel, and will not be held liable when your dumb ass goes blind if you do drink it.
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