What Happened On Set Today

The first day of the shoot didn't really start out promisingly. First I was running around with crap to do all the way till we were supposed to move off. Then I had no idea where the crew was, not knowing they had their own van (well, sometimes they don't, OK), and were already on their way. More time was spent clearing that up, so we left late. Oh, and it was raining, on a day when we were supposed to do all exterior shots. Lovely.

The woman at the hospital was nice enough to let us shoot our stuff inside, so at least we could go ahead and actually be productive. However, that meant we had to set stuff like lights and shit up, which took more time. Also, I had to run around turning the sound down on the numerous TV sets around the place. Why is it that hospitals always seem to resort to TV to occupy their patients' time and attention? And why are they all turned to the same channel with the same terrible soap opera? And why are all these old men watching a lame soap? So many questions, so little time.

We moved on to the lobby after that, where we managed to shoot until the rain really began to fall hard, such that it affected sound quality. Hence we retreated to a corner and made our smoky tributes to the gods. It must have worked, because the rain dwindled to a light drizzle by the time we were done with our cigs.

Nothing much happened afterwards of note. Now I'm back in the office, exhausted (I woke up at three this morning and couldn't get back to sleep till six) and I still have four straight days to go. Tons of crap to prepare. People to call. Whatever.

I need a smoke. Bad.