The deets on Day One!
Paola Mendoza,
Co-Director/Co-Writer/Lead Actress
It’s 9:04 pm after Day One of shooting and I feel great!!! My feet REALLY hurt because I was standing all day. On the real, I probably sat down for a total of twenty minutes in our 12 hour day. So you can imagine how much pain I am in. But I am happy to say that we made our first day. We shot every scene that was supposed to be shot. Of course we all had to make some artistic sacrifices but in the grand scheme of everything the day was great.
It started off a little rough. Once we got on set and tried to get our sound to roll we realized that our sound mixer was broken! Yes, BROKEN. We had our sound team trying to fix the mixer at 7 am and at about 8 am we made the call to go rent a new one. This of course left us with no sound for at least an hour. We got creative and shot everything we could that didn’t REQUIRE sound. We all handled the sound emergency very well. Our team worked together to fix the problem. Not only did we fix the problem but we got back on schedule by lunch time.
As I drove to set today I realized that you only have day one of your first feature film ONCE, and I said to myself no matter what was to happen I had to enjoy myself. Having my mother on set, with my brother and his family was perfectly beautiful. Their spirit and love carried me through the day just as they always have.
I am too tired to write anything beautiful or poetic but I must add that I realized today how lucky I am. I had my family on set, I had my two best friends with me, my boyfriend loves deeply and my community came out in force to show their support & love.
I am forever grateful to everyone who gave me such a special day today.
On to day two….we are ready for anything!
Co-Director/Co-Writer/Lead Actress
It’s 9:04 pm after Day One of shooting and I feel great!!! My feet REALLY hurt because I was standing all day. On the real, I probably sat down for a total of twenty minutes in our 12 hour day. So you can imagine how much pain I am in. But I am happy to say that we made our first day. We shot every scene that was supposed to be shot. Of course we all had to make some artistic sacrifices but in the grand scheme of everything the day was great.
It started off a little rough. Once we got on set and tried to get our sound to roll we realized that our sound mixer was broken! Yes, BROKEN. We had our sound team trying to fix the mixer at 7 am and at about 8 am we made the call to go rent a new one. This of course left us with no sound for at least an hour. We got creative and shot everything we could that didn’t REQUIRE sound. We all handled the sound emergency very well. Our team worked together to fix the problem. Not only did we fix the problem but we got back on schedule by lunch time.
As I drove to set today I realized that you only have day one of your first feature film ONCE, and I said to myself no matter what was to happen I had to enjoy myself. Having my mother on set, with my brother and his family was perfectly beautiful. Their spirit and love carried me through the day just as they always have.
I am too tired to write anything beautiful or poetic but I must add that I realized today how lucky I am. I had my family on set, I had my two best friends with me, my boyfriend loves deeply and my community came out in force to show their support & love.
I am forever grateful to everyone who gave me such a special day today.
On to day two….we are ready for anything!
posted by Entre Nos at
9:35 PM
1 Comments:
Congratulations on day one ... you are on my rss feed - so have been reading your blog .. sounds like your having the most amazing time ... keep on writing :)
Cheers
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