Day 5 - Locusts

As I walked Trooper in the morning on Sunday, I noticed it appeared to be a nice morning with some blue sky peeking through, acting as if it might clear up. A few rain clouds hung around threatening to be an annoyance but I was thinking the sun might overrule the weather forecast. Ha! We had just moved inside to grab some shots and wait for the wind to die down when it began to hail. All I can say is that when I wrote that my character wrapped himself in a blanket in the scene, I wasn't quite sure if I knew why. It appears to have been one of the few decent decisions I have made in my life. Not that it mattered much, since it was uh, cold outside. And inside. The office is unheated (see below).

Despite the weather ( which of course blossomed into a bright sunny day once we finished shooting), it was a fun shooting day at least in terms of material covered. I want to thank Coby for coming out as Steve the camera man, and Kelly for squeezing us in with her other shoot. Sarah and Mike worked out a deal with a guy from craigslist for an interesting costume item. Although a risky proposition, I think spending the morning wearing it was useful, as it revealed a great deal about how the cast and crew feel about their director. It gave Vicky a chance to have some fun with her role as well.

I'm curious to hear everyone's explanation of what exactly is happening in this photograph from Sunday.

One last thing...if you ever have a chance to speak with people of importance at Sony, please tell them that Sony needs to natively support Panasonic's tapeless format. Sony Vegas has always been fantastic about being format agnostic, and it is a huge pain that they have explicitly not supported the HVX-200. Yes, there are ways around it but it is ridiculous that Sony is dumping droves of customers who want to keep using an awesome editing platform with a very, very popular camera.