Journal #6: Too Exhausted to Come Up with a Title

This week of filming was...exhausting, stressful, and challenging in multiple ways. At the beginning of the week, we had decided to film Monday, Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday. However, this carefully organized plan soon fell apart due to flaky actors. On Monday, Marlin showed up to the shoot late. Piero also forgot we were shooting that day, so he did not bring his camera. Because Amber thought Piero was going to bring his camera, she did not bother to charge her own. While we were trying to get everything done on Amber's camera, it died. Therefore, we did not finish the scene and had to postpone it to the next day. However, on Tuesday, 20 minutes before the end of 6th period, RJ, one of our actors, texted me and told me he could not make it due to "deadlines." This ruined our plan for finishing the shoot and we had to push back the scene until Thursday. On Wednesday, Bryan, our other male actor, told us after school he could not film at Petit Park until the next day (Thursday), so we had to push together the Menchie's scene from Monday and the Petit Park scenes from Wednesday on Thursday. On Wednesday, we reshot scene 3 and filmed our fight scene. On Thursday, nothing went horribly awry. We filmed at Menchie's first, then we drove to Petit and filmed there. After we were done, Piero brought the footage to Laura Macias, our editor, so that she could start putting the pieces together. Tomorrow (Friday), we will need to reshoot some scenes at Laura Macias' home in Sylmar. I hope that these will go well. I am excited beyond belief that we are done with all of RJ's scenes. Out of all our 4 actors, he was by far the flakiest. Also, Friday at lunch, we will need to ADR some dialogue from the first scene. I will be in charge of helping Laura Menchaca and Jeanette. Hopefully, we will be all done with filming on Friday (we better be done), and all the stress I feel while writing this post will evaporate into nothingness.