So we have our filming day and as you are all aware, we have only one day to film our entire project. Something that I was sure of a disaster came out to be an overall success.
This is the first time that I've had an actual chance to breathe in this project. Since yesterday the final step is editing.
But first....Let's talk about the process of at least my day on Sunday morning and Bellini's Italian Bistro.
I woke up at the scheduled time in which we had all agreed to wake up...8:00
Then I would have left my house at 9:00
The actors or rather the actress we were waiting for would come at 9:30 where she would find us waiting 30 minutes early
The manager, Dario, would come at 10:00 to open the doors and so we can start filming
We have to finish filming by 11:30 because the restaurant would be officially open.
Seemed pretty simple and almost impossible but organized. We had planned for no distractions because we have no times for distractions. No slip ups, No distractions and ABSOLUTELY NO GOOFING AROUND (something we are rather famous for....well at least our group of friends). We were prepared for the worst, in the case of bring two of almost everything. Slowly the restaurant converted into Noah's Ark...two sets of utensils, two plates of food, two wings, two waffles and even two Daren's (the other member of our group)
Now you might be wondering "Why two Daren's?"...... you'll see....
So I wake up that morning just ready to get to Bellini's and start working....
First we had to go make the food (out of schedule but we have time), then we had to get our extra Daren and start heading to the restaurant and by this time it was 9:45 and we had to get the other side of Weston in 15 minutes.
Now you must be wondering... "What did you do that took up so much time?"
My answer to you is....when we were in Publix getting our plastic chicken, we got a text from good old Daren saying that he would not be able to film. We panicked in the car for a bit but we remembered that we had our extra Daren. So we got extra Daren but then realized that there were more variables in Daren's part than we previously had anticipated. Daren had to act and we had mad a dolly to get a smooth path from his location to the table. So we needed the extra Daren in order to push the dolly as I filmed and Daren acted. Now we have only two people in that equation and (not to be cheesy) it didn't add up
We had to get rid of the dolly, disappointing as it is....sacrifices must be made.
Back to the story..... Our actress gets to the location exactly on time (surprisingly) and we still had some time until we got to the location. We finally met up with our actress and we waited at the restaurant for the manager to arrive.
So we waited and waited and waited.....if you can't see by now, he was not here and it was past ten. Our film time is being cut the longer we wait. Me being the panicked person I am, I begin to internally freak out. Nick in the other hand (still mad that Daren dipped from working) looked at his phone and saw that his messages to his manager did not specify whether were to come at ten before the restaurant opens or ten after the restaurant has closed. This to me is the entrance to the Twilight Zone because my parents will not allow me anywhere past nine (they are really strict). I was losing my mind
And Nick's response was "This would be a very Dario thing to do."
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