Well, I am already not feeling hopeful about the College of Santa Fe costumes, because it's been an entire day and all that's happened is I passed email info on to the girl in charge of costumes, meaning if I'm lucky I'll hear back from her tomorrow. Things can't move this slowly -- I need to know I have costumes before I can cast the film and arrange the locations, and I need to have that arranged at least a week in advance of the shoot, and we're already down to 9 days. I need to order stuff for the shoot online so I REALLY need seven days at the least -- if I have a rush order on everything I can get it that quick.
One thing that I am hating is how the costume houses don't want to just let me SEE what they have and pick out my own stuff, they instead want to get things out for me, which takes time and is tricky because the costumers don't always know the difference between 18th century clothing decade to decade -- or what's authentic for the 18th century at all. I sent photos to the costume girl of the kind of things I'm after, she might call. I was informed that I'd have to pay her $20 an hour for her work, a "small fee" for the costumes, and a deposit on the goods. I'm trying to see if I can get the "small fee" waived, since even if it's only $20* (*unlikely to be that small) that's going to be pushing us overbudget -- and I don't think I can put things together in 10 days if it's going to put us overbudget. (Budget = $500, about $400 of which is meant for the actors. So functional budget is $100 about half of which I think at this point is going to the costume girl if she can really help and the other half is for the recording studio postproduction.)
Meanwhile I had an annual checkup today, which is extra stressful as I was supposed to get some paperwork signed and didn't succeed at it. I also wanted to know some things I didn't get to ask or solve. This very well means I'll have to go back there, which I hope won't be a whole new appointment.
One thing that I am hating is how the costume houses don't want to just let me SEE what they have and pick out my own stuff, they instead want to get things out for me, which takes time and is tricky because the costumers don't always know the difference between 18th century clothing decade to decade -- or what's authentic for the 18th century at all. I sent photos to the costume girl of the kind of things I'm after, she might call. I was informed that I'd have to pay her $20 an hour for her work, a "small fee" for the costumes, and a deposit on the goods. I'm trying to see if I can get the "small fee" waived, since even if it's only $20* (*unlikely to be that small) that's going to be pushing us overbudget -- and I don't think I can put things together in 10 days if it's going to put us overbudget. (Budget = $500, about $400 of which is meant for the actors. So functional budget is $100 about half of which I think at this point is going to the costume girl if she can really help and the other half is for the recording studio postproduction.)
Meanwhile I had an annual checkup today, which is extra stressful as I was supposed to get some paperwork signed and didn't succeed at it. I also wanted to know some things I didn't get to ask or solve. This very well means I'll have to go back there, which I hope won't be a whole new appointment.