December 14, 2005
Two days and counting...
...so of course, this afternoon, I started feeling fluish chills in my spine, aches in my stomach. Since then, I've been devouring vitmain-C tablets and cayenne pepper pills and spoonfulls of grapefruit seed extract, and have exchanged coffee for green tea. Hopefully all that and a good night's rest will be enough to beat back the onslaught of ailments my lack of sleep has left me open to.
Aside from that potential disaster, the only other problem we've run into is with audio equipment. The vendor from which we were going to rent a DAT informed us that theirs was broken. Our second choice was having theirs repaired at the Tascam factory. It felt like a conspiracy: one utterance of the words 'low budget' or 'independent' or 'discount,' and the equipment mysteriously becomes unvailable.
But the issue has been solved - and rather creatively, I might add. We'll now be recording all our audio directly to vinyl, by way of an antique phonographic recorder. It should, if nothing else, add an intersting auditory aesthetic to the film. Snap, crackle, pop, etc.
The worst part about pre-production thus far has been forcing myself to skip the press screenings of Haneke's Cache and Tommy Lee Jones' The Three Burials Of Melquiades Estrada this week. I'm dying to see both of those films, but I'm a responsbile director, and there have been more pressing matters - like staging a mock guerilla shoot on miniDV (from which the image above was procured) at one of our locations, just to gauge the possibilty of unwanted attention from security guards. It was, at least tonight, a non-issue.
Posted by David Lowery at December 14, 2005 2:02 AM
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Good luck!
Posted by: Jake at December 14, 2005 10:18 AM
Well, obviously you'll get the flu and of course it's going to rain and sleet while we're trying to shoot outside for two full nights when it's around 30 degrees.
Posted by: jmj at December 14, 2005 1:03 PM
Jakes - thanks!
JMJ - you know, the more that I think about it, the more I believe that my direction might actually benefit from my being feverish to the point of delusion.
Posted by: Ghostboy at December 14, 2005 8:43 PM
i just got over (well, 90% over) the worst flu i've had in years..lasted for nearly three weeks. i hope you don't have it..if you do go to the doctor and get some 'real' drugs. cleared me right up. dayquil is a joke..
Posted by: brad at December 14, 2005 10:40 PM