Almost There

January 31^st, 2011

Aghia Paraskevi

Athens, Greece

     The day started off with a production meeting at 9:30am as usual. We discussed what our week is going to look like and it is crazy: Tuesday shoot scenes 1, 23, and 25, Wednesday shoot 13 Nancy and information desk scenes, and Thursday shoot two bar scenes. Not only this, but the actors have to have rehearsed all of these scenes and have them completely memorized and perfect or we won’t be able to finish our set list on Wednesday, as well as the Director and Art Director having to storyboard all of them. Plus on Wednesday we’re going to a soccer match right after the airport so it’s going to be shoot for eight hours, get on a bus  and watch a game until 11pm, then get home and wake up at 7am to travel to the mall and finish shooting. Tensions are going to be so high and everyone’s going to be so exhausted!

     We also had an images lecture from Taso with Greek lessons proceeding it. As soon as we were finished Kristy, Jamie, Caitlin Marassi, Jess, and I all met up to finalize the shot list for Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday. Making sure we group certain scenes together for continuity issues, sorting scenes by short, medium, and long, as well as location isn’t as easy as it might seem. We created task lists to send out to everyone so they know what their jobs are for Tuesday as well as Wednesday. Finding a bartender for our pub scenes has also been a hassle just because we want to have a bigger age range in our film instead of just college kids, plus we’ve used all of our boys already. I plan to contact the man Kristy and I met on campus to see if he is available on Thursday or not.

     This part of the program is supposed to be the most crucial: we’re running out of time and our cohesiveness has to be perfectly in sync for everything to work out the way it needs to. I think people are getting more used to each other and therefore a little less willing to help each other at some points. But at the same time producers and directors basically spend every free moment working on efficiency and making sure everyone knows what their tasks are so production is still flowing pretty smoothly. Seeing final cuts of video footage that has been edited of the scenes we’ve organized and shot is so awesome! I can’t wait to have all of the shots edited and ready with an end tangible product! 

We're sooo closee!

Susie