Long Time, No See, Hello Civilization!

Wow.... There are few things I can say that can better describe that stretch than "Wow". I mean, I can communicate how it feels to be running around Base Camp or Camper Land trying to make sure that everyone is uptodate on the goings on of the day. So that the Production Office back in Stamford can get all the information that they need to ensure filming budget, salary, catering, transport coordination, room reservations (for EVERYBODY!).

When we started on Monday we had mostly day or early evening shots. So it made sense to start with call at 8 or 9 and go til 9 at night. But then there is a need for an 11:30ish hr turn around for some Union crew members. So they are "not allowed" to be at work for 11 hr and 30 mins after wrap. And as day shots roll into night shots, and as hours working go from 12 days to 14, even 16 hrs days.... call is later and later because we wrap later and later and LATER! And to add, we finished the exterior shots on wednesday when we were done in kent, so now we have interior shots that have nothing to do with day or night. It does not become essential to do things expeditiously anymore. Mostly they just try to let us get through it because some people have other jobs and need to work in the morning, or need to get back to the city. So we wrapped last night around 2. We maybe got everyone out of the building at 3. Got back to Stamford by 4. And I have to be on a van back to New Haven at 1:30p for a 2p call.
We send out call sheets every day which let people know what is going on for the day. We always have 3 or 4 scenes that we want to shoot during a day. Yesterday we had 4. The first scene took 8 hrs because we shot it from about 4 DIFFERENT CAMERA ANGLES! And we didnt finish the 2nd one.... And with the travelling from Stamford to New Haven, we didnt even start shooting until 4 hrs after call. Even though everyone arrived at least an hr after call. We had rush hour traffic in new haven
we got there at 1, at call. and it took us 15 minutes just to get around the block because we are located on a one way street. Then to add to insult to injury, the Honey Wagon, Wardrobe truck, and Hair/Make-up truck along with The director's, producers', and actors' trailers are 6 big blocks away because that's the only place we can park them. Sonow we have bus the actors back and forth.... and the Holding for the Background Extras is one over and two blocks down in the other direction
Oh yay for the Yale University Theater...