Destinationless

Despite what the title might suggest, this shouldn't be a depressing, whiny college kid kind of post. I called it destinationless because I don't really have a plan for it yet, but I feel a need to write the things in my head. Maybe it will end up being a mangled trainwreck or an unexpected bit of wisdom. I expect the former, but we'll see.

These last few weeks have been kind of insane. Stone Lions Productions has produced six films in about two weeks. One set was rain in the daytime, one set was cold in the morning, one was cold at night, one was hot in a restaurant at an ungodly hour of the morn. I produced one, directed one, DPed one, production designed one, and gripped the other two.

I produced the rain in the daytime one. The night before, everything seemed to be in order. We had everything ready from the permit to the steadicam camera tests. Then we look at the weather forecast and it predicts rain. Not a lot, but a fairly consistant rain throughout the day. Lovely. I found this out around 10P that night and call time was 8:30A the next day. So, needless to say, from 10P to 8:30A I was fuhreeking out about it.

But we got through it.

We bought umbrellas.

Shooting went surprisingly well. By the end of it, my director was drenched, I was soaked, and everyone else was really really wet. We also learned from a lovely homeless man that when churches collect an offering, it is panhandling. Yeah. Also, the always empty and sketchy Waterside food court was packed with emergency workers who were there for a conference when we broke for lunch. God is pretty funny.

But we got through it.

It was all made worth it when we got back and captured the footage. Leonard P. Walsh II, under the direction of Adam Sypolt and the hard work of everyone else involved, took a random idea I had and brought it into beautiful, tangible fruition. I am literally left speechless.

This is why we do this.