I haven’t had a chance to be in my comfort zone much lately. Everything I’ve been working on is pulling me away from that. It’s always good to be able to think on your feet, but I am finding my brain is creating solutions before problems even present themselves.
On set this week, the wheel has chan
ged (again). I’m trying to keep up. I want authentic, I really do, but filming requires bigger than that, so it’s been a lot of retooling.
Prop guys are the really the unsung heroes of tv/film and I’ve had a small chance to live in that world. While I was working on my spinning props, there was a firestorm of activity around me—a broken trident needing to be repaired, a bent sword and the matching hand that went with it….it doesn’t seem like much, but on screen —-pure magic. I love what they do and realize I could never, ever do it for a living. It’s such a high sense of urgency for everything. It’s almost scary.
I got my first call sheet last night. Emailed at after 11:30 for today’s production. I need to be there for 2pm and Robert is spinning in the first scene that they are filming. Even though the wheel is not in the subsequent scenes I will still have to stay on set for when they turn the set around and shoot it from other angles.
I’m a bit nervous with them shooting a film behind the scenes on the “Making of Once Upon a Time” and will do my best to stay out of their way. However, some lip gloss just in case. I am still wearing the scar of evil cold sore and would not want to see what that looks like on camera…Perhaps some green screen or some other Disney magic?
I am looking forward to returning to the slow comfort of fibre. I set my objectives and expectations high, but at the end of the day, I am not working at a pace that puts me at risk. The expectations are my own, so the whole world doesn’t know if I haven’t met a target. (Unless I blog about it, of course)