NOT too close for comfort…

First day of shooting.

OMG – it was the best ever! Firstly we finished like 3 ½ hours ahead of schedule so our producer DONNA was very happy. Plus she was like WAY excellent in organising everything and letting everybody just work on the day! So biggest thanks ever!
The reason for that was because our first assistant director JOEL was excellent in if anything else but keeping the mood up which was so important. Opening and closing and opening and closing and opening and closing – you were warned that would be your job on the day!
Next our sound guy DAVE was sooo awesome! I mean we were doing this behind the scenes thing as well so we needed audio…so hot.
And we got sooo many nice photos thanks to our stills girl ISABEL! Who unfortunatley cannot make it for the second day but we have a trillion photos already.
Then our art designer – silent little worker who you never have to worry about – HANNAH had eveything prepared better than we could have imagined. The signs were so excellent so thanks to her boyfriend as well.
Then there was our lovely unit manager JOHANNA who is actually an old friend of Donna’s and she was nice enough to come along and be an extra set of hands for the day. Unfortunately she won’t be back for the second either (do I see a pattern forming here?) but no one will forget her cheesecake which was so excellent that it got a proposal (!) and an excellent review: “it has a lick…no, not a lick…a smudge of chocolate. So it’s not completely savoury and it’s not completely sweet”
Also, our backup dancers/ actors for the day! DUNCAN and JULIAN did the most amazing job in interpreting the song with their bodies the way that we want the world to hear it. They were so nice to put up with us the whole day while we tried to figure things out and were taken on a few unexpected rides (if ya know what I mean…)
With them were the excellent actresses MEGAN and JENNIFER that came in (one during her lunch break) for some minor roles. Although minor, the major would not be so without you! That’s meant to taken in the nicest way possible.
After we finished we all had a look at the days rushes and they were brilliant! Excellent lighting – especially on what might have been a potentially shiney surface! Of course this is all owed to JOSH our DoP who made an intense afternoon not so intense.
Wow, this has become more of a thank you speech rather than a report on what happened during the day so I guess I should thank the Academy and my parents…