Why the shooting of the film last longer than expected was mostly due to us unable to shoot in a gas station. You're probably sick of me talking about this gas station extravaganza, but it's the real reason. 21 or so gas stations were looked at, Holiday and BPs to smaller locally owned ones to stations that were a few miles up north or down south; I spent an afternoon many weeks back scouring around trying to find this place. Nothing. For the most part the employees were kind and thought it would be great, but upper management had issues. Issues that were never actually brought to my attention, and I've never been able to pin-point the exact problem.
Because this scene wasn't going to be shot, Wednesday afternoon I wrote out a new scene that would fill in that void. I sort of wrote it. I supplied the idea of what the scene was going to be, but Jeff came up with the core. It's different than what the gas station scene was going to be, but it will work and we even hit on a couple "plot-points" in the film with this new scene. There are times while developing a character when you discuss subtext and the reason a character will behave a certain way. I love this stuff, because it gives life to a character's motivation, but most of the time when these things aren't verbalized or even suggested in the subtlest of ways, the subtext becomes entirely lost to a point where the audience member just doesn't understand it. So, we touched on one or two subjects that are on the back burner through-out the film, but not too much. Whether this new scene will work as a whole when the entire film is cut together, has yet to be determined, but as an individual scene in the privacy of Paul's car, there's certainly an undeniable amount of realism. I think it's great.
That's another topic of discussion through-out the making of this film: who's to say what is or isn't realistic when two characters are talking in private, or who's to say what is or isn't said out-loud when a character is alone? This is tough, and hopefully we did it right. I think we did.
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I've been working at my real-world job a lot in the last three weeks. It's been nice. I haven't worked this much since July. I've been such a financial bind since August (because of the movie), that Jenn's been having to help me a bit more. I'm thankful she's been able to. I owe her a nice big check, which she'll get on Monday. I also need to thank Corey and Dave for working whenever I needed to do my movie stuff. Right now, as I edit my film and get it ready for festivals and as I'll be able to help more with making Wedding decisions for mine and Jenn's Wedding in September, I've been getting more stressed and sleeping less. Not because of the Wedding or really my movie, but because of my future employment at the theatre. With Digital Cinema going in sometime in the next few months, there may not be jobs for traditional 35mm projectionists -- so what do I do? I have no idea. I've been apart of Willow since I was 5 or 6 years old, and have been employed at the theatre for 10 years on January 2nd, 2012. Where do I go from here? I'm worried, but I'm almost optimistic about what comes next.
I'm going to get back to editing. I'm about to cut a pretty fun scene together. Super fun!
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