Musings of an Idiot

Weekend-2 of '5'

Man, what a weekend. Fun, exciting, adventurous, challenging and productive - all in all it was just wonderful. The weather held out and it was nice and sunny most of the time. It was just the 8 of us as Mike - the art director called in sick for the weekend with severe ear infection. We trekked in on Friday evening and the first night was hard for most of us because of the rats in the hut which kept making these massive noises combined with the snoring of Dave, Benji and me - that kept everyone awake at some point or the other.

Saturday was full on and really intense but fun at the same time. All of us woke up at 5.45 AM and started shooting from 7.00 AM. The day just cruised by and the highlight of the day was the trek to the top of a waterfall and back. It took us a good hour to get to that place and the trek back was even harder because the path was so steep and there was no supporting trees around that you could hold to push yourself up plus everything was just so prickly that you basically had to use your entire body weight to keep going up. It definitely was a huge mission, especially with all the equipment we were carrying. By the end of the day everyone was just exhausted and really happy to go to bed after the dinner.

I was woken up at 5.45 on Sunday morning when the wake up time was actually 8.00 AM because Dave - the audio operator (who sleeps with his sunglasses on) forgot to turn his alarm off from the previous day, even after specific instructions to everyone to check their alarm time. And after that I couldn't really go back to sleep, so had a pretty full on Sunday as well.

Here are some of the pics from the weekend and you can see that we really did have a good experience. You can click on them to enlarge -


Overall it was great. We got 90% of what we wanted and the one scene we did not manage to get, we have postponed it to the pickup day. The unspoken hero of the weekend was David M. - the script writer, who trekked in and out (2 hours in total) on the Saturday evening to take our discharged camera batteries to charge them up overnight. He then trekked back in again on Sunday morning to give us the charges batteries, which basically kept us going through the day. It is things like these which make this project so worthwhile.

I was down with major cold today but I am feeling a lot better - maybe a good night's sleep will get me back to normalcy. Now have to start preparing for this coming weekend's shoot - which will be as intense - if not more. Can't wait for it.

Till later,
Amit

Labels: Filming, Five

posted by Amit @ 4:14 PM