Shooting Day 9/Pick Up day 1

The week from hell didn't result in a complete wast of a weekend.  We were able to shoot half of what we were supposed to on friday.  Everyone scrambled to put together one robe and one mask, the bare minimum for what was needed to shoot half of fridays stuff.  We lost saturday completely unfortunately because we needed robes and we just didn't have them.  Sunday we salvaged as a pick up day to shoot the few scenes that we had missed on prior days.  It was a good feeling to pick up all the scenes. However, although these scenes are now picked up, the scenes that we lost because of robe issues on friday/saturday put us back in the hole, thus leaving us in the same position that we started.  

Friday's shoot was one of the hardest shoots in terms of lighting set ups. We shot on a back road with no street lights.  All the lights were powered from a generator that my Dad brought to set.  The generator worked great for power but we are going to have to do ADR for the sound because the generator engine was so loud.  It was really tough lighting a night scene without making it look unnatural.  Having Kenny there really saved us.  (Kenny is Kelly's boyfriend who works as a professional gaffer in the "real world.") He really helped a lot. 

I think the production meeting we held on saturday was very productive.  It was basically a meeting to discuss what went wrong this past week that led up to the "almost blown" weekend. It was also an open forum for anyone in the crew to discuss concerns that they had.  This went very well and I was glad that we handled this near disaster in a professional way so that something like this will not happen again.  It is so important that we work together as a crew and get all our problems/opinions out on the table so that their is no boiling resentment on set that could potentially hurt the overall outcome of the film.