Crew Drizzles Day 1

Today we had our first day of Crew Drills. It went really well. It was pretty fun, and very tiring.

From 8 a.m. to noon, I did BBE, which is running power to the entire set, and then sitting around for a while. I really enjoyed it, though, and I never thought I would.

Next, I directed, which was truly terrifying and amazing at the same time. I loved working with the actors, and I got my actor to act amazingly well by comparing the stuff in the scene to Lord of the Rings. Which was incredibly incredible.

When I had to talk about what lenses I was using and what the coverage was, though, I was completely lost at sea. But everything else was great. And I decided to set up the most complicated dolly shot ever in the history of the universe. And I had an 8:1 contrast ratio and a ton of lights. But when we got it right, it looked amazing.

Thirdly, I did 2nd AD which was a lot of sitting around and way too much snacking at Craft.

Overall, though, the day was great. I'm going to try to get my hands on the footage I filmed today in class, because it looked so cool!! Real movies!!! Whoa!