FMP
9:00 am Got up after 5 hours of sleep. Showered, skipped breakfast, walked up to other group member's flat.
10:00 am Got a two-second tutorial in sound recording to prep for shoot.
10:00 am - 12:00 pm Directed additional ending scene in police station. Also recorded sound. Also made sure fussy, high-maintenance actor was happy. Also told camera man S. to get tripod shots additional to the handheld shots he insisted on.
12:10 pm - Got panicky phone call from editor telling me that the Mac with all our footage and editing project files wouldn't turn on. Panicked.
12:13 pm - Got another phone call telling me that, no, wait, it's turning on. De-panicked.
12:00 pm - 13:30 pm Directed additional additional ending scene in office room location. Also recorded sound. Also made sure camera man S. wouldn't set up the shot with the subject bang in the middle of the frame. Also tried to do at least some semblance of a sound log to make the audio/video sync easier. Also attempted to be friendly to office room location people, since they let us in without charging us.
13:30 pm - 14:30 pm Dropped fussy, high-maintenance actor off at train station. Got Costa coffee. Got Subway. Went up to editor's place to help him match up the sound. Found out that S. still hadn't dropped off the footage. Hung out at editor's place for a bit and watched the film back.
14:30 pm - 17:00 pm Helped edit the ending when S. had finally shown up. Helped fix the credits. Helped sync the sound. Tried to install CS5 on the laptop. Failed. Polished the website a bit; cleaned up some music files.
17:00 pm - Got a phone call from Other Producer M. telling me she's in so much pain that she's shaking and crying and she won't meet us for another rewatch of the film. Asked her for details. Was told a list of what sounded like kidney stones symptoms.
17:10 pm - 20:30 pm Called roommate's boyfriend to drive me and M. to the emergency room. Sat with M. while she signed in, waited, got triaged, waited again, got put into another room, waited again, and then was seen to by a doctor. Told M. to dump her boyfriend because the boyfriend didn't even look up from his PC game when she told him she was going to the hospital. Commiserate-panicked when doctor thought for a moment that M. was pregnant. Breathed a sigh of commiserating relief when doctor told her she wasn't. Felt relief as well about M.'s pain apparently having gone away.
20:30 pm - 21:00 pm Spent way too long sitting on a bus with M. to get back to the city center. Decided I was starving.
21:10 pm - 21:40 pm Went into a kebab shop to buy food. Paid counter person with £20 note I'd borrowed from M.. Counter person attempted to cheat me out of £10 by short-changing me. Told counter person to give me back my money. Left without food.
21:40 pm - 22:30 pm Went to M.'s place. Had some food there. Helped her put together the production portfolio. Boggled at the stacks and stacks of paperwork this production has produced.
22:30 pm - 23:15 pm Borrowed M.'s bike to go pick up some more paperwork from other group member. Realized that in the UK, even if you're on a bike, you still need to go on the left side of the street.
23:15 pm - 12:00 am Went to editor's place with M. to watch the film again. Had strudel with ice cream. Watched M. text S. to ask him what's happening with the trailer, which S. was supposed to upload at some point during the day and hadn't so far.
12:45 am Watched M. get a very rude phone call from S. in which he yelled at her for interrupting his beauty sleep. Was handed phone by M. after not being able to avoid interrupting. Chewed S. out about him being an irresponsible dickwad and told him to get the trailer to the editor by tomorrow morning at the very latest. Hung up. Was applauded by M. and the editor.
12:45 am - 1:30 am Watched film with M. and editor and talked about thinks that still need doing. Stayed behind when M. went back to her place because her pain was coming back.
1:40 am - 2:00 am Called M. to ask her if she's alright. Was told no, she's not, and she thinks she has to go back to the hospital. Went back to M.'s place and made her call the hospital. Worked out a pain killer plan with the hospital phone person and made M. take a lot of painkillers. Hated on absolutely disinterested boyfriend some more. Was relieved when pain seemed to go away again.
2:00 am - 3:30 am Put together production portfolio with M.. Printed a lot of paperwork. Forged a signature.
3:30 am - 4:00 am Watched "Badly Dubbed Porn" with M. on Comedy Central.
4:00 am - 5:00 am Went home and typed this entry.
WHY YES I HAVE A DEADLINE TOMORROW. How could you tell.
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