Air Raid!

Yesterday was a bit of a speed bump. We were told that there was an emergency in the morning and that there would be a call at 3:15 to sort it out.

I have to say that when you have hours to think of what could be going on and no one is telling you, your mind has ample opportunity to wander to the worst scenarios. There was a moment there where I thought everything had gone south and they were coming to kick me out of Stun's offices.

Fortunately it was not anything as bad.

IFC wants to make sure that the scripts are the best that they can be and to that end they want to give Stu a writing resource to help him on the script polish next week. Which is a good thing. I'm happy that Stu will have some fresh eyes in the final stage of writing and, of course, I want the scripts to be the best that they can be BUT... I'm a little worried.

We are about 2 and 1/2 weeks out of production and I don't have any locked scripts to plan a schedule, lock locations or produce shot lists, staging, etc. Locations could change, scene intentions could change, motivation for characters could change, my sure footing feels a bit unsure today.

If I continue to work on my shooting plan I can fall in love with it and when the next stage of scripts come in, nothing I planned may fit and I may be so in love with a shot that I don't see that it no longer works. I wonder if this is par for course or if this is just me going though my own angst.

All I can do right now is hold on and try to adapt the best I can.

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