I’m sore. I can barely lift my arms and I’m embarrassed to say that I’m probably the only one out of the crew. I planted the boom mic on my hips since my arms could hold the mic over everyone for so long. This left little circle
Anyway, the first two days we were shooting outside. We moved inside today in a tiny apartment. Everyone crowded into an even tinier room before going into a tiny bathroom.
During these scenes, I kept thinking, “well at least there isn’t food in here.” I heard a story about how in Texas Chainsaw Massacre, the crew and actors sat in a room that was 120 degrees with rotting food.
I’m not sure what it was, but the constant hum/hissing noises polluted all the audio. This means retakes unless our sound guy can save it. I’m still kicking myself even though I wasn’t the only one who didn’t hear the hiss. Well, actually, I kind of just wanted to hit my head on the wall over and over again, but considering I already have a headache, I decided against it. And it isn’t going to do any good. We’ll figure out what happened and what went wrong tomorrow. I think tomorrow will go smoother than today, but everything looks good at least so it’s not a complete waste. I hope. I think.
I’m just trying not to beat myself up too much about it. I kind of find it funny when people tell me that the main photographer was being too hard on me. I am probably ten times worst on myself to the point where he’s told me, “Stop doubting yourself!”
Everyone has told me this.
I always forget how hard learning something new is. It’s exciting, but never easy. I’m not sure if natural talent is true, but I don’t think anyone has a natural ability when it comes to filming.
I could be wrong though. To be fair “Jaws” ran into a billion problems so I’m not feeling too bad. It’s frustrating, but what can I do?
I don’t mind looking over my film, but I absolutely hate listening to my own voice. I’m learning to grit my teeth and focus on the image and not on my voice.
It’s not easy.
The shot from the basketball game yesterday turned out well and we didn’t need to worry about audio as much.
Since we didn’t have to worry about shooting tonight, I was hoping to get a mental break from it, but me being me, I ended up watching a documentary about how one of my favorite movies, Silence of the Lambs, came together.
Looking over at that movie, I got a few ideas for some angles and shots that maybe I can test out on Tony and T’keyah, the director, to see what they think. Oye, I need a break.
Oh, and hopefully by the end of all this, I’ll be able to post the bloopers and the funny stuff that happened behind the scenes.
Learning to be a Visual Storyteller 