Tails

I feel bad. We went over budget. By a lot. I’ve had to spend a lot of time running around begging for people to loan me more money. Not invest. Loan. 

Our line producer went directly against many of our direct orders about how set should be run and it really added up. She could not comprehend how we could function with a small crew. She thought what we were saying we were going to do was impossible. 

We had requested to keep a small crew for our first three scenes since we were filming them in our garage. I talked about the small crew with our line producer and she said she would just meet us at the second location and not be at the first. 

I should’ve known everything was going to go south when she showed up at our home first thing in the morning. It felt so aggressive for her to storm into our home how she did. It’s like she was still bitter about how we went and were able to successfully film without her that one day. As though we had gone against her orders instead of the other way around. 

Most importantly, we had specifically told her that she should not bring our 5 interns to set (people I already felt uncomfortable having a part of the production to begin with since I do not like the idea of having unpaid people working on the crew whom I did not approve of). The spaces we’re filming in are small and more bodies doesn’t make us move faster. And they’re more mouths to feed that we cannot afford. We even put it in bold in an email to her. 

She ignored us and brought them all anyway. 

It feels like such a liability to have them. Plus, such a slap in the face to ignore our direct orders like that. 

Later, I broke down into tears begging her to not demand so many wrap days. 

It’s such a mess. 

Spouse is so mad about the financial position I’ve put us in. 

I’m worried about what else this line producer is going to do. I’m worried about getting her to back away without trying to somehow sabotage the project.