Setbacks and Steps Forward

This past week was, to put it delicately, a huge mess. We were extremely underprepared for the weekend of shooting and we saw the results of that lack of preparation very quickly. We were scheduled to shoot the scenes at the cult meeting house. First, we had problems getting the location. Then, the costumes for the cult members weren't ready. Two patterns, one new sewing machine, and several agonizing hours later, we had one solitary robe that was just enough to get through a section of the scheduled scenes.

Luckily we were able to do exterior scenes, which is good because once the trees start to look springy we will begin to have continuity problems with outside scenes.

That said, we are now about 2 days behind schedule. We did use those two days to hold a very productive open forum style crew meeting and to pick up scenes dropped previously. The meeting was effective I think because it allowed us to regroup, figure out where we went wrong and work on fixing the problems. A lot of the things we haven't been doing individually or as a crew have built up until we finally crashed last week. But that's what this whole experience is about - learning what works and what doesn't.