The lovely folks at Sweet Revenge Entertainment let us use their bathroom…all night. I’m not sure what it says that so many of my scenes take place in the bathroom, but we loaded in and vowed to hold our blatters.

We’ve been having a lot of trouble with the camera…or should I say the hard drive that connects to the camera. A quick google search would suggest that a LOT of people have encountered this problem, but it’s frequency doesn’t make me feel any better. It’s late, folks are exhausted, I don’t know what footage we have or don’t have…and some engineer at Panasonic decided the external hard drive to capture filming should be attached using a flimsy 4 pin firewire.

I learned a lot as a director tonight. At the end of the day, all that matters is what is happening in that little rectangle box. I tried to focus on my actors and just shoot what we could. Christiann, Erik, Anna and Brian really delivered tonight! They patiently went take for take knowing that sometimes the camera wasn’t recording. I love my crew as well. It’s hard to be a filmmaker when the camera doesn’t work, but everyone kept in good spirits under the hot lights – making jokes, brainstorming solutions and taking turns helping each other with equipment. I’ve got an amazing team…and that’s how you succeed…that and not shooting to hard drive using 4 pin firewire.