Water's Ege Day 2

Things got off to a slow start today. Mark and I followed Russ out to the location; it took about 45 minutes to get there. Once we were there, it took a little while to get set up. Energy was low all around; but picked up after we broke for lunch.

Our lead showed up at 8:30 as scheduled; but it wasn't until 1:00 or so when we finally got to him. He wasn't too upset though, or if he was it didn't show. Our day was set for 9 hours today; and it took 11. More productive than yesterday, but still too slow. We did get some nice shots though. Today wasn't as difficult either, since there was plenty of shade to duck under, and benches to rest on.

Our set was Holmes High School in San Antonio. What a beautiful campus it is! We had a bus load of kids that we had as extras yesterday, but they didn't show up today. Apparently, they were all friends of our location coordinator's son...and he was supposed to tell them all where to be. The only problem was that they went out to party yesterday after the shoot; and the guy ended up dropping his cell phone into a pool, and lost all their numbers. We lucked out though; a volleyball team was practicing at the school today, and their coach allowed them out of practice to be our extras. Half the crew had to be extras as well. I think I can be seen walking through the background in 3 different shirts. We were joking that we could have an extra on the DVD... "Where's Bob."

Tomorrow, I'm driving into San Antonio again to have lunch with Sunny's father, and to visit his gravesite. Then it's off for day 3 of shooting, which is actually at NIGHT this time. It's our first few interior shots, so we'll be playing with the lights for a couple of hours.