In a way I gave up my spring break. The day after it started I was on a rooftop till 1am setting up lights. I'm working on an incredibly ambitious film that two grad students from my school are making. We are using an incredibly complicated camera for the first time to pull of ridiculous stuff. This pretty much means that we wrap about 4-6 hours later than expected every day. I'm also doing this for free.
So far it has been good though. I always enjoy being on set. Yesterday we were in the penthouse almost 40 floors up in the richest neighborhood in Chicago. We spent a lot of time lighting the room from the outside, so I got to take in an amazing, and terrifying view of the city from the edge of the roof on a particularly windy night. Wrapped at 1am. Back on set at 9am today to shoot inside a huge cathedral. The inside of the church was gorgeous and I can't believe they let us just roll in there with tons of lights and equipment and kindof have our way with their holy house. Regardless it all looks great and we are back at it tomorrow at 8am.
It seems I never really have a spring break. I've never gone on a vacation to somewhere warm, or partied particularly hard. I usually seem to just take that week and a half or whatever and work. It's a little disappointing.
So far it has been good though. I always enjoy being on set. Yesterday we were in the penthouse almost 40 floors up in the richest neighborhood in Chicago. We spent a lot of time lighting the room from the outside, so I got to take in an amazing, and terrifying view of the city from the edge of the roof on a particularly windy night. Wrapped at 1am. Back on set at 9am today to shoot inside a huge cathedral. The inside of the church was gorgeous and I can't believe they let us just roll in there with tons of lights and equipment and kindof have our way with their holy house. Regardless it all looks great and we are back at it tomorrow at 8am.
It seems I never really have a spring break. I've never gone on a vacation to somewhere warm, or partied particularly hard. I usually seem to just take that week and a half or whatever and work. It's a little disappointing.