Drunks, Day 4: You're Fired

Okay, so last week's shoot didn't go over very well. Not only had we not gotten in contact with Hank, my regular DP, to confirm him, but the centerpiece of the entire fucking shoot bailed on us AGAIN.

We sat around for a while with our thumbs up our asses and waited. And waited. And waited. Finally, all we could do was set up stuff on the bar as we had before and take pictures for continuity's sake.

Mike was pretty frustrated and I can't blame him. I could have been at home with the family, but instead I had to replan what will surely become a new shoot of sorts. There was a lot of stuff with a bartender that we needed to get and now, we'll have to reshoot everything that the guy was in. Ugh. We gave that shmuck 3 chances. Casting seems to also be working against us. Mike is considering letting our second camera operator, Sky, fill the part. I'm hesitant about that since he's not an actor, but then beggars can't be choosers.

Oh, and did I mention that a featured extra who has come regularly wasn't available for the shoot? Oh, yes. And that might also throw us for a loop. How I'm going to work it out right now, I don't know?

Still, I know this is the kind of thing that's going to happen from time to time. I just hope we can get it all together this coming Sunday. The word is that we'll be there setting up at 9AM, but I'll believe that when I see it. Don't get me wrong, this bar is giving us free reign over the place, but anyone you're not paying for a service won't always come through like you expect. Sometimes, dealing with glitches in that department makes me wish I had a large pool of cash to sweeten these pots.

I guess we'll see how things go on Sunday.

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