What a waste of time :/

Last Monday, I get an email about the shoot. It said we will be tentitively shooting scenes xyz over the weekend. Since I'm a manic email checker, I responded immediately saying that I had an audition on Sunday but I ould probably work around it. Saturday, I was all clear.

Email sent



And, I wait...



and I wait...


by Friday afternoon, I still haven't heard anything, and since they had said tentitivaly, I made other plans. Friday at 7pm, I get an email asking me to show up at 9am.

:/

Ok, fine. I reply saying that I would be there, but that unfortunately I would have to leave by 1pm because I had other plans. While it did not go over extraordinarily well with the director, I bounced the situation over with an objective source and was told that I was not being unreasonable, especially since I got less than 24 hours notice. Either way, I told him, I would go and give him my 110% for the time I was there.

So, I show up at 8:45, wait around a bit and the director shows up. He has some bad news. We have no makeup person. She can't make it and I need her to do the special work on my eyes. Since the three scenes I was suppose to shoot are all continuations of scenes that have been previously shot, they couldn't film me looking different. Oh and we also don't have a crew. Or the other actor I'm suppose to be shooting with. :/

Long story short (too late :p), after an hour and a half of deciding what to do, they sent me home. So it didn't really matter that I had plans because they didn't end up needing me anyway.


Now, don't get me wrong, contrary to my blog title, I am not angry. It's actually quite hard to be mad in this situation. In fact, I actually feel really bad for the guy. He's wasted money renting the video equipment for this weekend. Money from his own pocket. I know how much that could suck.

On the other hand, it also sucks that things seem to be so disorganized.


It's an experience.


At least that's what I keep telling myself.