As I write this, Gene is putting together our outtakes / extended / deleted scenes reel for our cast and crew. Hopefully we'll have it done by our screening on Saturday.
Saturday morning came bright and early with a call time for our male leads at 8am. Gene and I were up around 6 to eat breakfast, drink two cups of coffee, and fix our hair. When Truman (one of our male actors) and Mike showed up, we went over the script - remember none of the actors has seen it yet - and made some quick changes after "sleeping" on it for a night. By 9, we were out the door and heading to our first shoot location of the day... Combatsportsupply.com Justin, the owner, was very accommodating and we quickly found out that he's always wanted to participate in i48. We're holding a spot for you next year, Justin!
We were off again by 10 to find a park, shoot a scene that couldn't happen because that park didn't have swings - but we changed our scene - and we were heading back to homebase (my place) by 10:30. We got there, shot three REALLY FAST scenes before our actresses started arriving for their 11:30 call. Then we split. Mike took the boys for some outdoor shots, while I took the girls for some greenscreen work. As each one was getting their shots in, the others were going over their scripts. I think they said that they didn't even have time to read the whole thing - just their parts. We were in rush mode! At 12:30, we headed out to grab lunch (to eat on the road) and head to our main shooting location by 1pm.
On our way there, we realized that we actually didn't know where we were going - our DP had set it all up. He's out there about once a week shooting for his own Youtube show, Airsoft Riot I called him from the car and he told us to meet him in the Albertson's parking lot. (He couldn't join us in the morning due to prior obligations.) We arrived in the parking lot around 1pm... got a phone call that he was running late... started our blocking to make sure we were ready... got hot... went pee... put on sunscreen... decided to get back in the cars to wait... got a phone call...
JC: "Where are you?"
Me: "In the Albertson's Parking lot, do you see me waving?"
JC: "Uh. I'm at the location."
Me: "We don't know where that is."
JC: "Oh no! I totally forgot we were supposed to meet in the parking lot!"
We started our cars and he talked me through the directions while we drove out of the parking lot. It wasn't really funny at the time, but I'm laughing my ass off as I write this. I imagine many people functioning on very little sleep ran into the same sorts of issues.
We made it to our location, suited up for the big shoot, and headed down to the field...
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