One more week down, 11 more to go

So this semester is taking its toll. Less sleep than I would like to be getting.  Way too much work. Just busy as can be. The lack of weekends isn't helping at all.


We started shooting the movie last weekend. The first day, Saturday, we shot in a small classroom for 9hrs. I ended up being an extra because we have been having problems getting enough people to volunteer to be extras.  It was... well not fun. I ended up just sitting there for 9hrs straight and pretty much doing nothing.  Apparently i ruined a take because i had a "strange facial expression." Oh well, it happens. I didn't sign up to be an actor. 
Then Sunday we did another 9hrs of shooting. Thank god we were at least in a little bit more of an open space.  This time I just spent most the time sitting around.  Few times I got called in to be an extra just to walk in front of the camera. But other than that, after i had all the extras signed in and the set dressed I did nothing.


This weekends shoot is gonna be worse than last weekends.  We're shooting in a dorm room. I already set everything up yesterday.  But I still have to be there just in case anything goes wrong.  So for today I head over and I get to sit in someones bedroom for about 9hrs, most likely not doing anything, while they shoot in the other room.  hopefully I can be on skype most the time, we'll see.  And then I get to do it again tomorrow.


Thankfully this is our last weekend of shooting before spring break.  My break starts on Thursday.  So I'm planning on leaving straight from classes and getting on the road.  No real plans for most of break.  Playing it by ear for the most part, we'll see what happens.  Towards the end of break I have that 8k with my best friend, hopefully we'll be ready.  


The first actual show that I've ever directed has been posted to the web, http://bit.ly/gCSzK1. Yah I've directed a few shows for class before but those were for a grade and weren't serious really. This is a news broadcast that HPU has weekly. and now I'm the director for the program. So lil bit of pressure. I watched over this first one I did, I see my mistakes, and I'm ready to fix them and make a better show next week. we'll see on Tuesday.

Thats about it here,

'till next time

~Jboll3