Last Day of Filming

I won't sugarcoat it. Our last day of filming was a mess.

As I've mentioned in my past posts, one of our biggest obstacles has been working around our main actor's busy schedule. Originally, we were suppose to finish filming last weekend, but our actor had to cancel at the last second, and the only other time he was available this week was on Tuesday after 4:00 PM. Since this was our last week for filming, we knew we would have to finish filming everything in that one afternoon. Despite my state of overwhelming anxiety, I knew we would just have to make it work, so that's what we tried to do. We planned accordingly with our other actor who agreed to film with us on Tuesday and provide us with the setting as well.

Flash forward to Tuesday when things fall apart even further. Jania and I are together getting some last minute details together at the dog park before filming, when we get a call from our other actor. He tell us that he has to cancel, and that we can't use his house to film anymore. 

So. It's one hour before Jania and I have to start filming, and we're suddenly left with neither a second actor, nor a place to film. We start scrambling like crazy, trying to figure out who can fill in and what to do. After about half an hour of Jania and I freaking out and thinking we were totally screwed, one of her friends replied to us and said he would be able to film that night after 6:00. He wasn't a particularly.... good actor, but we were totally desperate and he was willing to act for fast food. We ended up filming in Jania's house until 10:30 on a Tuesday night. Towards the end of filming, Jania's camera started to die, so we had to rush through filming the last few parts. Hopefully that won't come back to haunt us.

All in all, it was a disaster. But, at the end of the day, we got it done. Now, lets just hope it all comes together a little more smoothly from now on.