Tails
“Tails” refers to the tail slate, the clap at the end of a take when things get flipped around—and this blog is just that: a flipped-around peek behind the scenes of my second feature.
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There was a fire on campus where we are living and supposed to be filming. No one from the production was involved. One of our crew was scheduled to move into the building tomorrow. Doesn’t sound like anyone was injured, thank God! But it happened in a suite where our lead’s room was supposed to…
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Getting closer to finalizing some cast, but it’s getting closer to filming and therefore more stressful. Moved furniture around in the main set but no decorating done yet. I know progress was made today, but I’m itching to be able to see more of it physically. The rest of the week should be busy. I’ll…
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Drove up to our first location today. Art is getting started on dressing the first location tomorrow. Only a few of us up here tonight. Listened to an episode of “what went wrong.” Did not make me feel better. Closed the two biggest cast members today. I know I’m filming someone on Monday. Had a…
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I’m so used to taking on way more production work. I’m basically feeling panicked over all the production office work I haven’t coordinated or props I haven’t picked out. But we’ve hired people to do those things this time. Amazing people to handle those problems. But it still feels weird. And wrong. I guess now…
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I hate how little progress I can make on the weekend with casting. Costumes dropped off some boxes. I’m not sure how she was able to do so much without many sizes or many actors cast to dress. I dropped my daughter off with family for the next three weeks. I feel like an ass…
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One of the strong supporting roles involved nudity. I thought I had an actor locked in. Today she told me she thought about it some more, she’s not okay with the nudity, so she’s bowing out. It feels like every win comes with a loss.
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We never told costumes that we definitely were not doing a rack check on Monday. It’s something they had requested to be moved. So we did. But we didn’t tell her. And her assistant is flying back early from her vacation to be there. For nothing. I feel awful about that. I can’t believe we…
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Still scrambling to find a new gaffer. It still sucks to lose both a gaffer and a friend. Made some headway on casting deals but actors still aren’t closed yet. So frustratingly close. I’m hoping we can close some people tomorrow so they don’t all drag out over the weekend. I feel bad for costumes.…
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Gaffer just bailed on me. He was one of the first crew members we brought on. He came to table reads and gave feedback on the script. I flew him out to a location for a tech scout. I thought he was more invested in the project. I thought he was more invested in me.…
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Made some amazing headway on casting today. Still farther behind than we wanted to be at this point. A lot of people are still panicked for costumes. Lead actor finally texted me back and we had a good chat. Was even able to snag their sizes from them. A win for costumes. We’re worried our…
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