Water's Edge Day 1

Today marked the first day of shooting on Water’s Edge, and it was a difficult one.



At 5:45, Mark (the script supervisor) and I woke up, already 15 minutes behind schedule. We tried to follow Russ out to the location we were shooting at, but he wasn’t quite sure where it was either. We didn’t show up for our 6:30 call time until 6:45. It was 7:30 before we actually shot anything. Every shot took twice as long as I had budgeted for. Our 7 hour shooting day took almost 12 hours.



That’s an entire day spent under the hot, hot sun. We were shooting the Dockett home exteriors, on this trailer lot way out in the middle of nowhere. The owners were very gracious too us, even when we told them they couldn't take their boat out to the lake, because it was already in some of the shots.



It stopped being fun after the first 6 hours. My neck is on fire, and despite drinking 3 bottles of water, I still have grains of salt caking my forehead. Time for a nice cold shower, aspirin, and a trip to the grocery store…then LOTS of sleep.



Tomorrow’s day is scheduled for just under 9 hours. We’ll see.