Okay, I wrote a big post and it got deleted. Here’s version 2.0 for you guys.
So I went to Bob’s office today for a few minutes and we discussed the things we have upcoming. The next task on the list is to hire additional crew. See, what’s happening is that we already have a professional film crew for the shoot, that we’ve hired, but we’ll be hiring university students from the school to assist the crew. It’s an opportunity for them to work with professional film-makers and for us to have cheap labor. *g* I’m relieved, to be honest. I can’t wait to have other people working on this project to delegate to, I love my job but it can be overwhelming. I’m not complaining, don’t get me wrong, I just don’t want to do it all by myself either. I mean, I’ll have to be able to trust my crew though. I have issues with that, if I feel like there’s reason not to trust people to get a job done, I don’t want to give them the job to do in the first place. It’s just that I trust myself to get it done whereas, I don’t have an easy time trusting another person to do it.
Speaking of trust, if I’m honest with myself…I’m not sure I like J, the other PA on the film. I mean, he’s a nice enough guy, I just feel like he rubs me the wrong way for some reason. Part of that, honestly, is what happened the other night.
It was after auditions and already late and I should have been studying for the test I had the next day but J said he and a couple of the guys who were doing filming for us were going to be going to his place off campus to talk about stuff for Film Guild. I asked if we could hang out and he said I could come over and I assumed at some point we WOULD be hanging out. Instead, it was simply a ‘meeting of the minds’ for Film Guild and afterwards J went with his friend to his friends’ dorm to play video games. I thought that it was implied we would hang out but apparently not. It was my fault for not being clear on what was going on but I was still bugged by it, too.
I know I should be mature and handle things in an adult manner, get over my petty hurt feelings, talk to J and tell him that I’m having issue with him, work it out and move on. But I just feel a little bit mad right now, at myself for wasting precious study time and at J for being kind of weirdly callous (there was a few other things that happened that night too that made me wonder about him). I’ll suck it up soon and talk to him, I don’t like holding grudges, but for now I’m going to be stupid I guess.
Anyway, tomorrow Bob and I will meet again, after my morning class, to discuss casting. We also talked, today, about changes on the script, which we’ll probably discuss tomorrow as well. The script keeps changing, all the time, being rewritten with additional scenes, different dialogue, etc and I really think that all the changes simply keep making it a better and better story. I wouldn’t say there’ll ever be a final script, just a most recent copy, until we go to shoot that is. The story will continue evolving and changing though, even through the editing process until the very end, final product. It’ll be really good though, because of all the changes.
So, that’s all for now, I think. There’ll be more after tomorrow.
Till then…
It isn’t easy to trust someone you don’t know to do jobs that you could do, because you’re probably thinking, ‘I know I’ll get them done, but what about this person?’
Make the deadline clear for when you would like it done, and if it doesn’t get done, pass it on to another person. If they get it done, you know you can trust them with more.