We have less than a week left until the shoot. While I’ve been alternating between curling up in a fetal position and running in circles around my living room in excitement, my lovely A.D. Justine and 2nd A.D. Jacqui, and of course producer Amanda, have been working to keep this shoot on-schedule and in control.

What’s been done?

• Art director Candace has been designing and executing a surrealistic reality for our characters (you figure it out) that is funny, dark, and just a little crazy in the best sorts of ways.
• Jacqui and Justine met with me for an absurd amount of hours to try to talk me out of every single shot in the film. It was a valiant fight, and they made some major wins in the favor of saving time, but I managed to hold onto our money shot despite their death threats (and Justine’s temporary coma in the middle of the Tisch common room when I announced we were doing an entire scene in basically one shot).
• Our D.P. David designed a shot list to die for. (Haha. Get it? Die? Death? C’mon.)
• Storyboard artist Michael made the boards for one of the most complicated scenes to cover.
• Amanda kept everything going, despite the fact that she has a movie of her own to shoot.
• Boom op John Doe has decided not to make an appearance until sometime later next week, so as to make a dramatically late entrance into our otherwise complete crew.

I’m about to go to the first full-cast rehearsal. Can’t wait!