Ardath Rekha

Okay, this might be the feature that totally sells me, LOL! More icons would be nice because I'm an icon whore but just being able to have my post land in multiple places at once is super-cool.

In about three hours I have to be ready to shoot. It's not a particularly complicated shoot but I'm still a tad stressy over it because loading the Arriflex BL isn't exactly easy. (Then again, my final practice runs before loading in the real film all produced textbook loops, as did the real film, so maybe I'm overthinking and overstressing. Still, it's going to be a long day, especially because the first actor we were going to be shooting abruptly told Eric yesterday that he couldn't make it in until noon instead of nine am. So that's three hours lost since he was first up for shooting.

Still, shouldn't be too bad, right?

AUGH GOD I know it can be. I've seen some of the shoots this semester. Of course, on the plus side, at least Eric's been to a film school with a more established program than ours, and knows how those places run their sets... but that doesn't mean he can manage to run one the same way. Just because my shoot ran like super-awesome clockwork doesn't mean that his will... or that I can do anything about that except smile and keep shooting. He'd better give me lots of caffeine if it gets late. Lots and lots of caffeine.

Speaking of my shoot... actors were spectacular and crew was incredible. The film is currently at the lab, and has either already been telecined or will be on Monday. Either way I should have it back in my hands by the middle to end of this week. Not much time to throw a rough cut together for my professor, but doable! (He actually told me that he'd gotten word (from one of my leads, who's in a band with him) that my shoot was the best-managed shoot of the semester. Which was awesome to hear.)

Okay. Three hours to get ready. Maybe in that time I can make the scratchy throat go away.

No, I don't have swine flu, shut up.