VIDEO - Day 1

It. Was. Amazing.
I got to the parkinglot at 6:27 [I didn't want to be late for 6:30am] in the morning, and there was a group sitting in front of the TAT building. One girl a remembered from my lecture class for TAT - the rest were a mystery.

Eventually we loaded into cars, and I ended up squeezed between two guys in a car that was driven by the chick that was supposed to be the stranger that drove me to the meeting. She said sorry about the earlier mishap. I forgave her :]

Anyway - we got to the old threatre and then we UNLOADED. o.o
LOTS AND LOTS of time later, we introduced ourselves, and were like HAI MAI NAME IZ AND IM A.

I'm a grip.
A baby grip.
Meaning...a n00b that can move that, hold that, find that, balance that, and disappear on command. I AM NINJA.

A redhead guy that I was sitting next to on the way there turned out to be the head grip. We taped stuff up and blah blah blah. There were a ton of other grips - most appeared to be older than me. Not hard - I turned 18 on Thursday.

People were all really nice - and there was a really epic guy that caught my eye - but MORE ABOUT THAT LATER.

Basically - if someone asked for a grip, I'd ninja over and be like "=D" in my cute, adorable, way. I was the youngest and shortest. I WAS THE ADORABLE FRESHIE BABY!
And they all loved me :3

Anywho - once things got started, it got kinda fast paced. I made a good impression on the head-grip after awhile, and he kept getting me to do special jobs. I was supposed to push the dolly at one point - but the only guy that I didn't really get along with and seemed to have it in for me at all times...was like "NO HE DO IT" -points to other grip-
Makes sense since I'd be pushing two full grown people, a giant cart, and an expensive camera. I GOT TO HOLD THE WIRE <3

Harder than it sounds. I nearly killed the dolly-pusher-man. 0=D
>.>

People actually left when most of it was set up, since they got bored. I stayed. I hung out in the stairwell with two guys at one point. One was like...my favorite. The other was just chill. I'm probably working on the chill one's movie as soon as I'm done with this one. The cute one was a Junior and I noticed him as soon as I sat in front of the TAT building. :] Adorkable. For. The. Win.

I hung out with the cute one most of the time xD
We had a long discussion about movies and where he came from :-O
HE PAINTED STARRY, STARRY NIGHT [my t-shirt] FOR AN OIL-PAINTING FINAL.
fate.
>.>

I will get his number next Saturday, dammit. I don't know his last name sooo there's no way to contact him :\ Whatevvvvvv.
I HOPE I will see him next weekend :3
MAYBE ON CAMPUS :¬O

They all kinda adopted me, and I let them. There were two freshie girls, other than myself...but they left. I was the hardcore one xD

The movie itself was a bit...well I'll see what she does with in it post. It was well shot, though. I signed some sort of waver, so I'm sure I'm not allowed to say its title or anything specific SOOOO >.>

My-guy and I were like -bored- on a couch later - just watching the people do stuff and act-ness. It was so funny when they were like "GRIP!" we both shot to our feet and were like "WHAT?"
...they only needed us to push a cord out of the shot. And you know what? TEAMWORK.
XD

THEN IT WAS TIME TO PACK UP...twelve hours later x.x
I almost fell asleep a few times while waiting for something to do. The headgrip actually did. We poked him.

Anyway, we packed up. That was a paiiinnn. Then they parked the trucks/cars in front of the threatre to shove our stuff in. THEN...

DUN
DUN
DUNNNNNNNN

...the Metermaid.
From hell

She gave the head tech a TICKET. He's already wanting to eat babies and puppies, but then he was like >=O
o_o
We were all like
xP

So we parked across the street.
And Jaywalked.
Way to go. Now we're actually obstructing traffic.
Myguy [you don't get to learn his name...I don't do names in the blog, I decided] and I nearly died a few times - especially when we had to take the dollytrack tube that's sixfeet long. He was like "I GOT IT" and I'm like "NORMAL PEOPLE USE TWO PEOPLE" and he's like "I GOT IT - BUT YOU CAN SPOT ME" so I followed him and made sure he didn't kill people xD

Nearly took out two.

>.>
BUT I SAVED THE DAY.

So we had to cross the street to pack stuff - and that was scary. Busy street. Heavy stuff. GO. Meep. The cameraman told me stories about how cops tend to be part of every capstone movie. Like they were doing a suicide scene [we're in his flashback mode now - not something that happened in the movie I'm working on] with a gunshot through the head in a car.

So they windshield was cracked, covered in fake blood and grapefruit [brains - duh] and the crew was covered in the fake blood too - because the squirter malfunctioned and was like WEEEEEEEEEEE *squirt* They also had fake bullet casings everywhere, a fake bloody gun, a fake bloody grave, and did I mention they were ALL COVERED IN BLOOD?

-cue joggers-
"OMG!"

They called the cops.
"KEEP YOUR HANDS WHERE I CAN SEE THEM!" the cops were all screaming, with THEIR HANDS ON THEIR PISTOLS. Good thing a TAT teacher came and was like "DON'T KILL MY BABIES!"

xD

Same cameraguy nearly got arrested for "horrible cries against women" when he was bored and throwing manikins off a three story building.
He might just be my new hero.
xD

Everyone went their separate ways [meaning I stalked my cargroup away from the set and myboy] and they were all like "SO WHAT DID YOU THINK OF YOUR FIRST SHOOT? =D" and yeahhh :]

AWESOMENESS.
I totally feel at home on a video set. I have found my calling...I just don't know WHAT I want to do on it yet o_o

I don't know when we shoot again. Either next weekend or the one after. I hope next.
I need his number xD

>.>
0=]

And I don't go home, even though I have Sunday through Tuesday. o_o
Parents can't...
:p

...friends gone.
o_o

SOOOO I'll spend tomorrow, Monday, and Tuesday...I'm not sure.
I'm sure I'll blog about it.