Shooting Chaointe

Well it was less then 4 weeks ago I talked with Tatiana about doing a improv type short. The setting would have to be simple with little movement and the script between 2 and 4 pages. The original idea was a boy playing chess with his mom and thier discussion about where the boy was going to live. I then went more of a banshee route. Mainly because I have always been fascinated with banshee's. So the story was a man having coffee with a banshee and then he dies shortly after.
So I picked up all the equipment for the shoot on Friday and dropped it off with Eric. Eric then fixed the lights and then did all kinds of magical things to the camera. wave monitors and warp drives he explianed it all to me I didnt understand any of it but I tried. Next I ran a thousand errends that were all for sensless little things that you need. The night before the shoot I stayed up until 4am to get myself ready for the shoot because we would be shooting until 4am or 6am. I stayed up until 4 printing off actors release forms, going over notes playing a game called flatout and then I fell asleep watching Donnie Darko again.
I woke up at 8am and laid in bed until noon pretending that I wasnt awake. At noon I finally got up pissed that I only got 4 hours of sleep. I went to Costco Wholesale and picked up muffins, pretzels, water, bananas, apples and ding dongs for the shoot. I then went to michals and picked up poster board and foam core. you use these to bounce your lights off of. Oh I picked up stronger wattage lights at costco for your regular lights or practicals. So you have a lamp with a 20 watt you replace it with a billion gigawatt type bulb. Let see I grabbed my thai food(for breakfast) nothing says 4 hours of wierd sleep like thai food for breakfast. Chicken Phad Thai extra peanuts 3 stars please.
After grabbing the matireals I went to Erics where we just went over the game plan, what sequence we would shoot in etc. After that I headed to Capital Hill or more specifically the Capital Hill Cafe internet lounge and eatary. If you go there tell Mike hi. He was so awesome to let us shoot there. Very mellow very nice go there and buy all his muffins. Ok so I"m on Capital hill hours before the shoot .....To be continued. I still havent gotten much sleep.