beyond exhaustion
hi everyone! thought i'd post a little update on our class blog especially since today was the first shoot date for the film. the starting date kept getting pushed back so it sucks that i have to leave in a week when the shoot has just begun! i think i'm gonna miss seeing all the prothetics and special effects. boo. anyways, its 3:15am here and i just got home from the shoot which started at 7AM. i can't believe i'm still alive. the shoot tomorrow starts at 9am in a location that's 2 hours from where i'm staying, but luckily since i'm not one of the cast or crew, i'm thinking i'll make my way down there around 10am. I NEED SLEEP but i'm so wired right now i figured i'd type for a little while. the first location today was at an unbelievably gorgeous, enormous ancestral home that was built in the traditional spanish/filipino colonial style. i took photos all day but i'm too tired to upload them today so i'll post them soon. we were at the house until about 8pm, then went over to the cemetary (!) for the night shoot. i had to go to the washroom at one point and to get there i had to walk all the way down and around a pathway along a stone wall which i discovered later on were actually crypts! scary.
the crew for this film is MASSIVE. i've worked on TV, short film and music video shoots before but never a full-length film so it was crazy walking on set and seeing swarms of people everywhere. one of the things i love about film sets is meeting so many people throughout the endless hours that you find yourselves stuck together....and the cast and crew ( i mostly spent my time around the crew ) on this set are fantastic. there were about 2 or 3 other photographers so one of the things i had to do was let them know what photos i specifically need for the film's print material and website down to the composition and angle. the director has a very specific idea about how he wants the film's main image to look and making it work really all depends on the right photographs.
i've been having meetings with the web team that i'm working with, all of which have concentrated mainly on organizing who needs to gather what content for the site. this includes photos (0f course), cast and crew bios, storyboard panels, etc... it has been disorienting walking into a boardroom and realizing that everyone has been waiting for me to begin the meeting. i'm definitely not used to people taking notes as i talk either. i start feeling really nervous about not being capable of this job i've been assigned to do but its silly for me to let that insecurity get in the way of this amazing challenge. but its definitely a challenge... gathering content has taken much longer than i expected: photos of course couldn't be taken until the shoot started, a chunk of the cast/crew bios are floating around with one of the production assistants that hasn't emailed them to me yet, i don't know where the heck the scans of the storyboard panels and creature designs are and the central focus of the film's main image has yet to be created by the film's art director (i only asked him to make it today cuz i didn't realize they didn't have one made already!) hopefully everything comes together soon however cuz i leave in a week and everything from then on has to be communicated over the internet. my eyelids are feeling mighty heavy now so that's all for now. hope you are all well!
ps. check my other blog to see photos of today's shoot. i should have them up tomorrow (provided that the next location has wireless...but somehow i doubt that.)
posted by c_mango @ 11:15 AM
2 comments
