Wrapped up second day of filming!
Gonna admit, there were some things I was happy about and there were some things I
wasn't very happy about. But the great thing was I was more prepared than last time. I gave better direction and had a better idea of what to do second time around. There were so many questions being asked and I was answering them on a whim, I felt more confident despite the constant pressure (especially the incompetence of my producer who I can tell didn't read the fucking script I gave him at all for the past few weeks).
Problem was the makeup took
five fucking hours, then we broke for lunch and only had 2 hours to shoot after that. We dedicated a large portion of that time to staging the camera placement, which we did with all the shots except the last one of the day (and I think it showed).
But we ended up getting alot of good scenes out of it, many of which are very short so it'll be easy to take out the ones I think are unusable garbage and keep the ones that are pretty good and help drive the story forward. While the facial makeup was pretty good (too Klingon/Sloth from Goonies if I wanna be nitpicky about it) but the hand and feet makeup were pretty bad. I ended up spending alot of time trying not to show them as much as possible. No offense to the SFX person I hired, who worked hard getting supplies and coming over, but i'm sticking close to my Japanese effects artist for the rest of my project. Her shit was amazing and completely appropriate for the project.
But with me trying to do everything at once, it was hard to gauge everyone's abilities and get the best material out of everyone in one day, let alone two hours. It was a bit too ambitious like last time. We have one more day of shooting two weeks from now, and they're the most important scenes. Based on everything I learned now, I'm going all out. I'm storyboarding this shit, choreographing it, getting the makeup down to a tee, and making sure I get the very most out of everyone that day.
With this insane learning curve, I'm definitely confident that come the feature I'll be more than ready.