Wednesday, May 11, 2011

Filming

God I am so tired of filming T_________T Today went to uni around 9.30am, and we finished around 6.00pm... So many bloody takes.
We started off having a lot of problems with lighting, we had to move the furniture and basically clean up one of our members apartment. Sorry to say this, but she's really kind of pissing me off now. She really is hard to work with. She's quite bossy, and likes to be in control, but so often she isn't present when we need some input or something. Same girl I was talking about last time for the screen play... anyway, the rest of the crew have been around filming while she was off doing something and didn't come back till around 4.30pm... and we were getting a bit tired and restless ourselves because our friend kept messing up his lines... and I was getting really annoyed myself because I was the 'interviewer', so I had to keep repeating my questions. We knew he was trying hard, but he kept laughing, or just stopping because he stuffed up. None of us made too big of a deal out of it, as we can understand that it is a lot of pressure when you have a whole bunch of people watching you, you're half improvising and reading off the laptop screen. But when she joined us, she kind of just slept on the floor while we continued working, and kind of burst out complaining how hard it could be to say the line. Sure, the guy was making a lot of mistakes, but I don't think she has the right to say something like that, especially all the other harsh things she said. And yes, I'm sure you probably could have done a better job, but you weren't exactly there now were you? If we chose her to be the actor, I'm sure we'd have ended up waiting for her again...
There was this awful moment as well, where my friend asked if the mic was on (this was probably around 4-5pm ish). I had a heart attack right there man, I swear to God, if that thing wasn't on, I would have given up for the day. Thank God it was though. Seriously. But there are so many things that aren't up to my expectations, and I'm hoping, *hoping* that all the footage that we took is good. I'm just a little worried how all of this will turn out... honestly, it's probably going to look like one of those shoddy student films rather than something decent...
Really just in a foul mood now.

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