Saturday Revisited

Picking up on the chronology with a slight review...

Saturday, we set aside part of the morning for our church service and had a wonderful time in God's Word. We moved worship from Sunday to Saturday because we anticipated many of our actors arrival Sunday morning, and getting them situated at that time would disrupt any attempt at corporate worship.

Like said, a few of the guys ran a couple errands into town and attempted to update the blog, but they couldn't find a connection. Meanwhile, back at the ranch, everyone had their assigned duties. JC, Kayleen, John V, Sage and Matt S conducted the official director's interview (part of BTS). It was great! The rooms in the ranch house were painted various colors. We felt like we were in the White House: there was the Green Room (two of them, to be exact), the Blue Room, and the Red Room. We shot Director Bradley's interview in the Blue Room (aka the Sewing Room). Out in the Kitchen, Susan headed up the efforts to finish the many and varied costuming needs. From the whirr of the sewing machines, it sounded like they were very busy. Obviously, they kindly moved out of the sewing room for us.

Some quick location work was necessary on the part of Matt B, Susan, and JC (any maybe a couple more) before the guys returned. When they did, John Naylor and John-Clay (JC) gave a demonstration on how to set up the track and dolly for Matt S and Jaclyn, who were assigned to especially help with that operation on set. While they bent their brains over track buttons, shims and not running JC off the track, Director Matt and Assistant Director Sage again went to the clipboard to further refine the shooting schedule. Or maybe they were creating it. They had to rewrite that shooting script so many times that week--the Lord was teaching us to rely on Him and be flexible as key components of making this film would get shifted or changed in ways beyond our control. The creativity in problem solving that the the Lord supplied was amazing!

Once the dolly demonstration was done, set crew headed out to the fixed-up dilapidated old cabin to get the place lit and ready to shoot later that evening. We had intended to shoot three scenes that afternoon and evening, but found out our second actor couldn't stay as long, and had to come earlier at that. Immediately everyone shifted gears, with no second thoughts and no complaining. The mindset was on what we needed to be done to make things work and go at it! And make it work they did.

Instead of shooting the outside scenes first, we shot the inside scene (see the blue-toned picture from previous post). And good thing we did--it took up all our time with our actor. Who, BTW, did an outstanding job!! We got lots of exercise in prioritizing that week.

And if things hadn't been turned around enough, wait 'till you hear about the batteries going out on our lights...with the clock still ticking!! And again, no way to fix the problem.....