Monday, December 12, 2005:

Oh, wait. I actually shot this on film, didn't I?

Bugger. Takes the steam right out of that post title, then.

Let's see: what can be said?

First: thanks to all who participated, from principal cast and crew to the extras who sat quietly to those who donated location, products, etc. If it weren't for all of these people, I'd be a writer, end of sentence.

Second: never never never let your extras go if you're not POSITIVE (in all caps, screaming through your head at 110 decibels) that you're through with them. It wasn't until the very end of the night that I realized that we had let the extras go too soon (we were down to Melissa and Scott, Chris, Chance, Wade and myself); fortunately, Chance was able to cheat the frame so that we should have a usable version of the shot with no extras.

Third: Don't bother questioning your call-time. It's pointless. Sure, I probably asked some of the crew and the cast to be there too early yesterday. There was a lot of deadtime in the morning, and that made for some cranky folks. But it occurs to me that had anything gone differently, the entire thing might have gone differently, and we probably would have run out of light or clock time.

As it was, we got plenty of good footage (I think -- we won't know for sure until the transfer and processing is done and the footage comes back to us, hopefully within a month or so). I believe that we got some good behind-the-scenes stuff on Chris Hilleke's DVX100, so there'll be a little something extra on the eventual DVDs.

And now, I'm going to not think about this movie for a few weeks. And it's not even so much that I need a little break from Muckfuppet (though I do) -- it's more that i need to attend to my life, which has sadly fallen by the wayside for a while.