Production Journal: The Princple of Things- Day 3

Day 3: I had Sunday off, but I was required to come back Monday for an extremely short scene. It was one of 2 graveyard scenes, so I had worked out that I would only need to be there for one shot with the director, since I didn't fancy taking another day off work for 20 minutes of shooting.

At 11 I got a call reminding me to make the call at 11:30. It was a good thing, too, because I was thinking I needed to be there at noon. So I snuck out of work entirely unstealthily at 11:25 and drove to NCSA.

I carried my costume for the day (a suit) up to the call location and met Sergey and Eric. Sergey immediately brought me to his car to put my costume in it. Before we had walked back, though, he got a call and told me that we would be doing the scene I was in second and not first. So I told him I could meet them at the graveyard when they were ready for me because I couldn't miss 3 hours of work.

So at 2 I headed to the graveyard and got very lost. When I found it, the other actors and I went to change. I was surprised my timing had been so good, but I honestly could have waited about an hour as they moved bounce cards and fixed the dolly at my office. It was a simple dolly move that they did at 48p (for those who don't do film, 48p is so they can slow it down halfway and it won't look choppy, video does this with 60p). During the course of the set up, the DP revealed that although we had worked together for 3 days, she still didn't know my name and had to call me Todd to refer to me. They did the one shot and that was it for me, I had finished my first 'acting only' project.


So with my NSCA project complete, I felt it necessary to mentally summarize where they are going wrong. It wasn't that hard, really.

Lighten up- Someone told me that this group was more laid back than most. If that is true than the uptight group mus have a boom so far up their ass that they can cover sound with their mouth.
I know that NCSA is teaching them to be professional, but jesus, have some fun.