Odds and Ends day

Woke up today at 12:15 in a panic, thinking I had told everyone to meet up at 12:30. It was raining, which meant that beyond my back aching like holy hell from working on the film all week, it ached from the rain too. I almost called everyone to cancel the shoot, especially when most of the shots we still needed where going to be facing the windows that wouldnt be quite so bright as they should be. But we're running out of time and I wanted a day (tomorrow) to look at all the footage and double check if we need to reshoot anything.

First we did the shot of Max and Al walking into the diner. That didn't take long.

Then we did the "kitchen shots" of Micki around the corner. The lighting was awesome, I hope they fit in nice as far as editing goes.

Next was the establishing shot that we ran filmed pretty much the entire film in.

Then, Sean O'Donnell finally made his appearance as Samuel, the Mexican. That was good fun.

After that, we went over to...a building...to shoot the elevator scene. It wasn't perfectly setup how I wanted it, but hopefully, through the wonders of montage, we can make it work.

We're getting really close to being done. We've got to do the following:
Close-up on the Swede for Scene 7 (with Nick Adams)
Scene where the Swede smokes sitting under the shadows of the fan blades, 2 angles, one of him in close-up and one wide-shot to see him put his ciggy out and get out of bed.
Shaving scene - probably 2 angles interspliced, as best we can.
Kitchen Scene - there'll be 3 setups for this and will take the longest I'm sure.
Nick Adams introduction - this'll actually take the longest, but it's just Nick Adams delivering flowers and making people laugh and be merry, shoot that around downtown.
Nick Adams running to warn the Swede - more of this.
Nick Adams entering the Swede's apartment building.
Nick Adams in the Swede's hallway.
Nick Adams hailing a Taxi Cab
Nick Adams in the "taxi".

and that's it. Actually, the more I look at it, the more I realize that we've got quite a bit to do still. Hopefully, if the rain holds off, we'll be able to shoot the stuff with Nick Adams running tomorrow night, the Swede scenes and the Kitchen scene Sunday night, maybe Nick Adam's in the Swede's hallway/entering the apartment.

I'm exhausted, but it's a good feeling in a way. I'd rather be in pain from doing something creative and fun than from just being in pain. This whole thing has been a lot harder, and while it's exhausting, it's something that I'm pretty damn sure I want to do again. I was telling Micki, Jim and Lusk earlier that my next film project might be something with that John North Wright stuff. We'll see. I've got some interesting ideas. First, this projects need to be finished.

I'm looking forward to getting more than 7 hours of sleep. Money says I'll end up crashing for something like 11 hours.