3rd of 4 days of the production in Conv. 27. The production is going with the flow, and I'm with it. Everyone is now comfortable with their jobs and what's required of them. No more rotations, the proud 16mm production tradition, that eat bulk of the valuable production time. The job is much easier since the laundry room part of the set is done and the bedroom part of the set will be done by today. It means we'll be concentrating on just the living room set to worry about the lighting and the flagging.

I and Justin, excellent and always helpful Key Grip, took our time to put away the gears as soon as shots were done. I always feel it's better to do it little by little than wait to do everything at the last moment.

The most complext shot of this production, the through eye-piece shot, was pulled at the last minute because of the logistics. We even rented expensive macro lenses to shoot close to the eye-piece, but it just couldn't be done. Maybe we could've done it in the post or something, yet, it was little letdown because it was gonna be very cool effect, and I worked out special lighting plots to raise that room f-stops to near 8/5.6. We ended up just shooting normal and that was done. Lessons learned. This is film making but also learning experience for everyone...

The Tenner is smoking, posing safety risk. One of the three pins are bad. What's new? 100 Amps is nothing to be joked around. Since we needed this big-ass light, we were turning it on just before the picture. Everything went according to the master plan...