Descention, Deceit, Deprecation, and Water Under Bridges

Well the past two days have been a bit rough. I'm not going to lie, there's been some internal conflicts the past few days on set. There's been lots of problems in our shooting schedules and with power going down during our shoot, and creative differences between the crew, tensions have been high.

But after a confrontation that brought these problems to the surface, we managed to pop team moral up a notch today and do the impossible.

Today we had 6 pages of script to shoot. Originally scheduled over 2 days, with a full crew. Then because of our actors we were forced to make it a one-day shoot that we wanted to do with 2 cameras. Then came the technical problem of the 2 cameras being in different formats. Then our sound guy said he wasn't going to be able to make it. And just when the schedule couldn't get any tighter or more stressful, one of our actresses decided not to show up, and not to answer her phone, so we had to use Natalie, one of our own crew to sit in for her. Which left everyone with 1 or 2 more jobs than we should have had. (i.e. I was at any one moment, a combination of 3 or 4 of: Boom Op, Assistant Director, Camera Assistant, Script Supervisor, Set Dresser, Lighting Tech/Gaffer)

Quote of the day has to go to Shab for the message he left on our no-show actresses cell phone:
"Hey Zahra, it's Shab from Memoirs of the Blue. We're still waiting on set for you and I just wanted to let you know that we're all really mad at you for flaking out on us, and after this you're never going to work in film in Antigua ever again... Bye..."

That's it for today ;)
Peace!