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01/15/2004: "Day one on the shoot"

3:30 am. Thursday morning. We are all alive, barely. Got a late start due to not buying the right tapes, who would have guessed that Panasonic and Sony have different tapes for HD (high definition)?? Sigh, a lesson learned the hard way. Finally started shooting my scene at noon-ish – more details on that tomorrow, er…today (Thursday) – but all went smoothly once we got going, shooting HD is similar to shooting on film and takes longer, requiring a re-light after ever position change. 3 and ½ hours later….and there were two more scenes to shoot after that! Since I was shooting behind-the-scenes I stayed until the very end.

I am rolling into bed to get some sleep before the 1 pm call time (thankfully the director pushed the call time back so we could all sleep). The shoot is here at the warehouse so at least all I have to do is roll out of bed into some sweats, grab the camera and go. I should have a little time to add some details during the day.

Sweet dreams.

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