Actor Growth

So today was the first day of shooting for me on this independent feature film and boy was there so many surprises. To start off, one of the main actress was replaced jut today. Apparently the reason was scheduling conflicts. However, upon talking to others apparently she often did not show up for whatever reason. They actually shot some scenes with her already too which means they will need to re-shoot it.

I know things often change by the time you get to set, but there just seemed to be so much of that today where we were shooting stuff that wasn’t even scheduled on the breakdown. Even for my scene it didn’t get shot as I thought it would. It was pretty hot too as most of the shots were in an open field as you can see.

Even the sound guy had to cover himself from the sun as standing there in one spot for awhile can sure burn.

There were a lot of military vehicles which was kind of cool. Example of what I saw:

Today it reminded me again how small this world is in the film industry. There were five other cast members on set and three of them recognized me from the past. One of them I acted in a student film with, another person recognized me from the casting director workshop I took not too long ago and one person recognized me from an actor’s group gathering that happened a long time ago.

All in all, it went okay I thought. There were quite a few bees and wasps floating around which made some people super jumpy whenever one got near them. One guy was wearing yellow and that seemed to attract the bees to him more.

Other than that, by the time I got home I noticed that I received the full script for the other shoot that will be taking place in about a week and a half. It appears that they will be shooting this in an actual pub. Kind of wondering how they will pull this off as the story setting is supposed to be within a Japanese restaurant. Lots of things to keep me busy at least.