8-8-07

Film just wrapped. It was a rough and amazing experience. Challenging to me in all areas, especially due to my lack of experience-for the first time during the long 4 week shoot the boom pole was in the shot. The look on the director's face and his impatience and disgust with the occurence killed me beyond words. Never mind that in the three weeks prior there had been no trouble whatsoever with the boom in the shot. This one time. At the same time, though, the director of photography looked over at me with understanding-sympathy, I'm sure. He helped me out, told me where I could put the mike when it was blocked by the car entering frame(once again, in my defense, it was an incredibly complicated shot to boom-I would've wired the actors, even the actors said they should have been wired-but I don't make that decision), and nodded to me as if to say, "I know, man. I know." He'd been through so much more shit than I had over the shoot-arguments and criticism from actors, assistant directors, the director, the producer, most everyone He knew what it was like to feel a superior's displeasure. It helped my morale to know he was in my corner, even though we probably said two words to each other the entire shoot.