deaf dj

previously published by me elsewhere:

Maybe I should have spent less time Saturday morning contemplating looking for windows to break and enter through and more time doing so. As we discovered out of necessity at the end of today's shoot, at least one window on the dark side of the building was unlocked and just asking for entry.

I came to discover from an early morning call from our director that one of the doors to our location was now open. So, after we "gathered the troops", as I once heard it referred, we were on-set and rolling through a couple scenes.

The dynamic changes drastically whenever a different mixture of people is on set. There's a different energy, and certain aspects of today's shoot really clicked and there was an overall good rapport and energy between everyone, but unfortunately certain things were lacking as well, be they key people or basic equipment.

Sometimes, and most especially on independent movie sets, ingenuity takes over and things seem to fall into place. At times, and maybe this happened today, the results are better since we had to make due, had to make it up on the spot, or had to toss heavy loads of duct tape on just about everything under the sun to make it sit still.

Although we really pulled through against a certain amount of challenges today on the movie, nothing quite compares to the one I worked on that wrapped on Friday night.

We went through that entire shoot with only three crew members. If everyone wasn't juggling ten different items, and balancing twelve different tasks during every take, something was truly amiss.

Ah, nothing quite like the little time!!