hey kids
We didn't get our schedule for this week until last night at 6:45... we have a "master schedule" for the semester, but it's not very reliable, due to the ever changing nature of the school (for example, I checked it yesterday to see what day and time our show is scheduled to check out... our show wasn't on there at all, instead it had the other show listed as checking out twice...). The weekly schedule has us done as checking out at 8:30 am tomorrow morning. Ew. One small consolation is that sound gets to come in an hour later (and I am sound on this next show). We have a meeting for the show tonight at 7:30 when we'll find out where we'll be shooting (in town, out of town). We start shooting on Wednesday. To make matters more confusing than necessary, the producer sent out an email this morning telling us check out is at 1:30 tomorrow. So I replied "Not 8:30 like the schedule says?" and she replies that we'll follow the schedule even though she was told 1:30... oookay. I worried that she wasn't going to resend the mass email and that I'd be the only one there in the morning to check out our equipment. But she did, like an hour later. Whatever. I'm not the producer.
Check Out is a necessary evil. Each department goes over all their equipment to make sure it's all there and working right. Then we load it on the truck. For sound team it isn't too bad. We don't have a whole lot of equipment and we get to come in an hour late (because camera takes at least an hour and they're first). Grip and Electric though suck. Grip has to take everything off the truck (apple boxes, sandbags, lights, stands, everything) and count it while the gaffer checks all the lights to make sure they work and at what temp they're firing. The BBE (best boy electric) has to count stingers. Honestly, I think that would be my own personal version of hell. Counting stingers for eternity.
Darrel says that when he goes home people say "Film school must be so cool!" and he gets a mental image of moving wet sandbags, lol. He also says he has film school dreams where all he does the whole dream is sort scrims (little metal screens that go on the lights). Darrel is a funny guy.
Yesterday before Mass Chris asked me if there was any job I hadn't committed to yet (for D2s). When i said production design he asked if I'd be his production designer. Which of course the answer was yes. Chris could ask me for a kidney and i wouldn't hesitate to say yes. So I don't know how scheduling is going to go yet, or anything, but i've agreed to be Chris's PD and Dan's Producer. Eric also really really wants me to be his producer. i'm secretly hoping to produce twice. But that probably won't happen. But a girl can hope.
*shrug*
So, I go on set wednesday. I don't know what the schedule will be yet, but it will involve 13 hour shooting days, so I don't know how much updating I'll be doing. But I'll try, because honestly set is the interesting part of film school. Class? Not so much, although we do have some cool classes.
But it's gorgeous here. So I think I'm going to go clean the patio a bit and read in the sun. Also, semi related... I feel great today. Not alright, or okay, or mostly good except the part that wants to burst into tears. Could be that I've finally recovered from breaking up with a guy I wasn't actually dating.
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Check Out is a necessary evil. Each department goes over all their equipment to make sure it's all there and working right. Then we load it on the truck. For sound team it isn't too bad. We don't have a whole lot of equipment and we get to come in an hour late (because camera takes at least an hour and they're first). Grip and Electric though suck. Grip has to take everything off the truck (apple boxes, sandbags, lights, stands, everything) and count it while the gaffer checks all the lights to make sure they work and at what temp they're firing. The BBE (best boy electric) has to count stingers. Honestly, I think that would be my own personal version of hell. Counting stingers for eternity.
Darrel says that when he goes home people say "Film school must be so cool!" and he gets a mental image of moving wet sandbags, lol. He also says he has film school dreams where all he does the whole dream is sort scrims (little metal screens that go on the lights). Darrel is a funny guy.
Yesterday before Mass Chris asked me if there was any job I hadn't committed to yet (for D2s). When i said production design he asked if I'd be his production designer. Which of course the answer was yes. Chris could ask me for a kidney and i wouldn't hesitate to say yes. So I don't know how scheduling is going to go yet, or anything, but i've agreed to be Chris's PD and Dan's Producer. Eric also really really wants me to be his producer. i'm secretly hoping to produce twice. But that probably won't happen. But a girl can hope.
*shrug*
So, I go on set wednesday. I don't know what the schedule will be yet, but it will involve 13 hour shooting days, so I don't know how much updating I'll be doing. But I'll try, because honestly set is the interesting part of film school. Class? Not so much, although we do have some cool classes.
But it's gorgeous here. So I think I'm going to go clean the patio a bit and read in the sun. Also, semi related... I feel great today. Not alright, or okay, or mostly good except the part that wants to burst into tears. Could be that I've finally recovered from breaking up with a guy I wasn't actually dating.
D