January 11th, 2011
6:30pm
Aghia Paraskevi
Today was all production, production, production. There has literally been no rest until now! It started with a crew meeting at 9:30am, where the AD, AP's, writers, continuity, and props got together to go through the logistics of all the scenes. It was astounding to see how well the group worked together today. Throwing out ideas and giving fantastic input was the climax of the meeting. Emilly threw out great ideas on how to tie the ending and beginning together, having Nancy pack her bag at the end, where George packed his at the beginning. Kristy talked about leaving it with a cliff hanger where Nancy cleans out her locker after being fired and finding a copy of George's book. So many great ideas, I love our group!
Then Jamie looked up the numbers for Coca-Cola and a TV corporation so we could contact them about using their products and getting copy-right releases. We ended up calling Coca-Cola and then I created an email with what our program was about, how long our movie was going to be, if it was going to be used commercially, and what it's educational purposes were for Taso to sign. I feel like I sent so many emails today! One to Virginia for a copy of an official copy-right release, the Coca-Cola company, and the Theater Department of Deree. I feel like my language is getting more and more sophisticated with every business email I send.
Kristy and I headed off to the school to make a bajillion copies. We copied 100 storyboard templates for Arnold, 50 video-logs for Carolne, and 10 organizational charts for the bulletin board. I always feel so bad for using most of the library's paper but we have no other choice! Then we went to the Student Success Center to ask for help about how to contact the Theater Department and they were extremely helpful. Not only did they call the main instructor and set up an immediate meeting with her, but they also directed us to the guards at the front gate who gave us a tour-guide to show us how to get to the communications building. The best thing about our 'guide' was that he just happened to be a grad student with an undergraduate in cinema studies who spoke perfect English. We chatted with him for awhile and I figured I'd go out on a limb and ask if he wanted to have a small role in our film since we were low on guys, and he gave us his information! He also took us all the way into the theater instructors room and was good friends with her, making our first impression quite good.
Once he left we sat down with Katerina (the theater instructor) and discussed borrowing some of the wardrobe from the theater department. We offered our make-up/wardrobe ladies to organize and hang up all of the freshly dry-cleaned costumes in turn for using the costumes. She was more than willing and even offered to give us the keys to her room! Not only that but she said we could have use of the black-box stage whenever we needed to, lights, sound effects, the works! She was extremely generous and helpful, something I hadn't experienced in Greece before. Taso had always told us that the people of Greece are very openhearted but I thought maybe you had to be Greek to receive this type of special treatment. Apparently not!
It strikes me as interesting that this woman was so generous with her valuables with complete strangers. When she volunteered her wardrobe collection she didn't even know our names. That would never ever have happened in the United States. Borrowing clothes would have been a long, drawn out process there where one person would send you to another person and so on and so forth. I even had my defense up when I walked in to talk to her, ready to make myself sound as professional and give her as anything she wanted, and didn't put up a fight. She genuinely wanted to help us, no strings attached. That's the way life should be, and if everyone worked by the honors system the world would be a better place.
Kristy and I walked home totally giddy from our accomplishments, we couldn't wait to share the good news! Plus when I got home Linh easily fixed my phone, which I was a little worried about because if I hadn't gotten it fixed by tomorrow I wouldn't be able to go on set. The only bad thing about that was that I had just bought a 20 euro Vodafone. Good news: I still have the receipt and didn't even break the seal of the box, so I should be able to return it! Thank goodness! Today has been such a good day!
Giddy with excitement!
Susie the Go-Getter :)
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