Sunday, January 15, 2012

Episode 3 Shooting Day 3

Snow. No, unfortunately, there's no joke today. Due to three inches at home and more along the two hours to the shooting location, we had to cancel shooting today. While we hustled for several hours to track down someone we could talk to live about which weather service was valid for the shooting location (most aren't), we admittedly experienced a bit of panic while we tried to reschedule the nine people we had lined up for today. David, Zach, Lizz, and Sammie (plus the five of us DiMarcos) were amazingly supportive and understanding but the truth remains: We're going to have to work twice as hard to secure all the shots in time. As it stands, now approaching midnight, we still haven't been able to set dates for all the actors and the weather, of course, is the real wild card.

Because when it rains it pours (or rather, when it snows, it blizzards, I suppose), the brand new PC that Brianne has been using to edit produced an interesting error message out of the blue: "Hardware Malfunction: Call Your Hardware Vender for Support; NMI Parity Check, Memory Parity Error; The System Has Halted." We were able to clean the machine, cool it down, then get it to boot up long enough to back up all data but... the error came again.

In the spirit of staying positive, the kids loved the snow and we did wind up shooting several scenes here at the house consisting of about a dozen shots with one elaborate prop and a fickle cat :) And, we have the new galleries of photos up:

http://photobucket.com/GSepisode1
http://photobucket.com/GSepisode2
http://photobucket.com/GSepisode3

The power of staying positive :)