Hello, it's me. Now, I’m not sure if you’ve ever heard about the novel series, “A Series of Unfortunate Events” by Daniel Handler, but I feel like the title sums up our situation perfectly. The actor I named initially in my group’s earlier planning blog canceled on us last minute as a result of personal issues, which despite us being completely understanding of, meant that we were left high and dry. As if to make matters worse, my uncle and aunt were hesitant about letting us use their bedroom to film, which I could accept because the members of my filming crew are virtually strangers to them apart from mentions of them in conversation, so since it was their home after all and they were already doing us a favor by letting us film in their kitchen, I decided that it would be in our best interest to find another location to film in as soon as possible. That is not to say that it did not put a damper on our plans as it did leave us in a bit of a difficult situation regarding what other location we could film at. Fortunately, as I've mentioned in one of my previous blogs, my parents are entirely supportive of my passion for film, so they had no issue with us filming at our humble abode (which just so happens to be a condominium, so we will need to work around spacing issues). Of course, this also means that we will need to split our time between two locations, ensuring to not overstay our welcome in either of the two places, whilst also wrapping up everything that we need to within a reasonable time frame. Returning to the topic of our lack of an actor, which is essential to our film since virtually every scene pictures the same individual, we were able to find someone - one of my good friends, Jeremiah. He was willing and able to step up to the plate and take over as our actor; however, we cannot ignore the fact that we are now a week behind schedule. Although that is the case, we did agree to accommodate his needs being that he is our only available actor who took the position out of the kindness of his heart, hence why we will commence with filming at 12:30 AM as opposed to 10:00 AM this Saturday. This means that we will need to work on an even tighter schedule than before to ensure that our plans don't entirely fall through.
While we were set back with regards to our recording schedule, it didn't mean that we were being unproductive by any means. While I arranged everything regarding our new actor and location negotiations, my groupmates focused on getting our props together so that we have one less thing to worry about this weekend. This was also done so that our actor would not need to worry about anything since he was already doing so much for us by even agreeing to film in the first place. He doesn't know this just yet, but to demonstrate my gratitude, I'll be treating him out to lunch somewhere! Anywho, after I had finished getting the logistics in order, I did not sit idly by, in fact, with the help of my amazing family, we began to spruce things up around my home. My dad and I took it upon ourselves to not only repaint the closet that we would be using so that everything looked to be in peak condition for filming, but we also took things one step further. Now, because of my living situation, we do not have any stairs inside of our home, but we do have access to communal stairs outside, stairs that just so happen to appear as a part of our storyboard. That being the case, I helped my dad paint over and clean the part of the stairs we would be using to film to the best of our ability to simulate the effect of them being located in someone's actual home, so I'd say that we did do a bit of community service too!
After how stressful the entire experience of having to replan things was for both my group and myself, I feel the need to reference the remarkable Gloria Gaynor and remember that "I will survive" (1978).
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