Production!

Well, guys, I made it through another week of production. Last week, I couldn't wait to get back on set, and this week, I've only been off one day, and I equally can't wait to get back!

Friday I was gaffer, which is the person who sets up all the lights. I was really excited, because I learned a lot on set. Gaffing was something I was really afraid of, but I got the hang of it, and it was a lot of fun. 

I felt like I knew so much. I was like, "Here's a reflection, let me audition this flag for you!" I was running around like a crazy person, setting up lights and putting on gels and auditioning flags. It was pretty sweet.

Saturday I had a day off to prepare for producing, which started out really hectic but ended well. I had gotten the wrong driving directions to the location, which were pre-construction directions on Google. I sent all those directions to my crew, and people ended up being late because they didn't know how to get there! I felt awful.

In the morning, I went to the location, got it unlocked, then I had to go get the cooler from the film school which was thankfully only 1/2 a mile away. On the way there, one of our crew members called and said she couldn't get into the school to get the keys to the generator truck, so I had to go let her in with my card. Meanwhile, her passenger didn't show up until later, so we thought we'd have to find someone new. And in the mean time, another crew member called me from her car because she was completely lost at a roundabout. 

Then, the elevator was supposed to run from the 1st floor up to the 3rd floor on weekends, but only stop at floor 2, which was a security thing, which was fine. But it ended up only going to floor two, and not ever to floor 3, so we had to have someone at the 3rd floor beam us up all day. So that was hectic.

Then we had an actor who was late, and I had to pick him up, and it turned out he lived literally .1 miles away from the location, and it was right behind his apartment. And on the way back to the location I went around the roundabout in a circle. Around around the roundabout. Indeed.

But after lunch was cool, and I was struggling for something to do. So I mostly sat there and babysat equipment and carried stuff and watched the time.