We’re well under way. Beginning much of our shooting on Wednesday, we’ve aimed to rid ourselves of the most difficult shots and scenes, namely the outside motion full shots, first while we still have our sanity. Even so, the days were long and the takes were many, questioning our ambitions as weather factored in significantly. I feel a large psychological factor of this project, is to not get bogged down by a perfectionist mindset, as the itch to do just one more take can be repeated over and over and over, blowing out schedules with ease. I’ve been pretty conscious of this, though I lost sight of this on Thursday, which was a massive 8 hour shoot. As much as we covered lots of ground, nearly half the film, I felt I could’ve done more to bear witness to a sense of reasonable pace. There’s a shoot coming up on Sunday that I will be sticking this line of thinking to action, trying to keep group motivation up, focus aligned, and productivity on course.

In terms of where we are, we only have a few shoots to really handle left, one of them may be clocked out on Monday, though group availability is starting to waver as the semester wraps up. I’m undoubtedly confident that we’ll have the production sorted in time for the 31st, though I’m really trying to keep that time consciousness in mind this week, as losing sight of that could get us too comfortable. Over all, I’d say things are going well and we’re sailing smoothly. The edit will be a whole other can of worms, because I know for a fact, being at these shoots, we haven’t been too editor conscious about which take is which, file transfers, not to mention mild lighting discrepancies or continuity errors we didn’t catch. Oh well.