Monday, June 21st

Today was our first day of off-campus shooting for the narrative shorts.

The instructors found the locations for our narrative films yesterday. They are both just off some country roads not too far from the OSAI campus. Both groups had a full day of shooting in the hot sun. I tried to get everyone to put on sunscreen often, stay in the shade whenever possible, and I held an umbrella over the students running audio and the camera. Despite my efforts we had many sun burnt students on our hands by the end of the day. When I wasn't on sun patrol, I was transporting teachers and students between sets, and making runs to campus for lunch and to refill the water jugs.

The set I was on for most of the day had the younger, more inexperienced director. He quickly got the nickname "One Take Wonder." His editor is not going to be very happy with him when he brings back one take from each shot size. Also, instead of letting the actors play it out, and giving them space for dramatic pauses and good reactions, he was always eager to yell "CUT!" Hopefully our director and his team learned from his mistakes.

After wrapping up the first day of shooting, we ate dinner, went to the faculty chamber music performance, then all the students and counselors went to the ballroom for a thank-you note writing session. For two hours the students expressed their gratitude to seven different people (each) who have made OSAI possible whether through time, donation, advocacy, or volunteering. The counselors were all there to help students as they needed. I love writing letters and I think the people who receive these notes really appreciate it, so I loved helping out.

(8:30am - 11:00pm = 14.5 hrs) (TW = 27 hrs) (GT = 186.5 hrs)