CANCELLED!

After much prepping and organising principally by Sean, Willy Dynamo cancelled again at the last minute.
This is frustrating because we wanted to get some closure on what is now a very loose narrative arch. After our shots last week where Willy is covered in blood in the side streets of Fitzroy and has found a medallion that brings about his epiphany (the original narrative was to have Willy pass a homeless man, stop,  and forgoing his own plight, go back give him some money. Because of his compassion, the homeless man was, in fact, a realised being and transforms Willy with the power of insight. Alas, Willy was not keen on this idea).
We were to see him as the new Willy transformed: clear sunny day on the beaches of St Kilda riding lowrider bicycle on the pier, the wind in his cap as he sings his song, free from the weight of the world behind him. We were going to get lots of B-Roll footage, we were going to get closure, we were…
Alas, no. Nada. Kaput Zilch.
This is disappointing because now we don’t have the music video we wanted. Rohan suggested (and I didn’t have any time after today anyway for another day to shoot) just to work with the footage that we have. It’ll work but it is a damn shame.
So there’s a lesson here.  The signs were always there with William. We never received the lyrics from him and it was difficult to lock him day to shoot. The fact that he cancelled only hours before the shoot was not helpful as for myself I have a family and had to reorganise my day to get my wife to do school drop offs and pick ups when she was working (I was not in the happy books!).
Lastly, it’s a shame we didn’t get to do the second-day shoot because I think Sean, Luka and myself were starting to find a groove with shooting and editing.
Next time, I’d find talent that was willing to do the days and stick to them or find an actor that could stand in.