Day-to-Day

MidTerm 4 Presentation.

January 31, 2015

I started to write this post while waiting in the movie theater and noticed I was writing in english only three paragraphs in, so, it’s gonna be like that. Fuck worrying about it being written perfectly, I think we’re past that stage.

Before we get to the point of what I’m writing about, I want to blabber about what GOT me writing, so here we go:

We had to present our progress this Friday and I heard the thing I feared the most: “you should reshoot”. Yay.

At first I was devastated. It was crazy hard to get all of that together. When I say “all of that” I mean the timing within the shots, performance, camera movements, Vancouver’s crazy weather, natural lighting and artificial lighting combined (practical and non-diegetic), the schedule of both May and myself, help from friends at very inconvenient hours (after 11pm and before 8am), and so forth (I could go on this list for hours). During my brief depressed hours I sent a message to May about it, saying I had absolutely no idea of how to pull it off again.

There’s this thing about May that it’s very important to point here: whenever I’m in doubt regarding any kind of work or my own skills, she’s able to bring me back to my playful-arrogant “I know how to do it” character in just a couple sentences. She inspires me in the best possible ways.

So, there was I, lost during lunch break, sending a message to May. I really don’t know how she does it, but before the break was over, I was already coming up with strategies and new ideas about what I had to do. Since the weekend was totally off, I decided to get into research and lots of weird subjects started to come together, so here I am.

Just to be clear: I will reshoot. Hell, I’ll even make it harder, and this time it’s gonna work. It’s almost there already. In the meantime, planning, rehearsing and testing.