Really digging into the work.

Today was a long day with some good variety. I got to do the regular scene shooting with the crew as well as some b-roll but I also got to do some photography which is always one of the crafts I miss doing. It was extra cool to do the interior architectural photography which is something I haven't done much of in the past. The long hours are nice and the crew is awesome and after the coming week I might actually get to take a break!

The unpredictability of clouds.

I spent a lot of my day shooting time lapses of the sky today. It has been something that is generally one of my main dictates as a shooter and even more so as a b-roll shooter. Today was an incredible mixture of clouds as they formed and vanished, whirling all around in every random direction against a contrasty, blue sky almost all day long. It was tons of fun to see!

Tired eyes...

Make for tired entries... I suppose it would be better of me to ensure higher quality than simply reaching for the lax consistency... but here it is. I hope it helps anybody beyond myself.

The vocal stamp of approval.

I have been working hard on this current project and I have been fairly confident I have been doing the best I can do. It is always nice to hear confirmation from your superiors that you are succeeding at your job and it is even nicer to hear that the quality you are rendering is very high. It's a bit of a challenge to shoot footage and just hand it off without reviewing almost any of it. It's a bit of a mystery box that is basically impenetrable outside of the feedback from those who are using it. But the faith to go through all of that can be rewarded by these stamps of approval and praise, indicating a quality product by my efforts. It is yet another reason I love my work. I love doing a job well.

There will always be fires.

It is a natural part of life's landscape. It is the nature of refinement - it requires heat to reconstruct temperament. Just breaking down the word temperament in a very rudimentary way shows its connection to heat - temp... temperature. Fire shapes everything it touches; every conversation, every relationship, every form of artistic expression, every physical element. And what becomes of this experience for each thing often, though not always, breaks into two different branches of results - destruction or strengthening. We can look at every experience in life through this paradigm, if we feel so inclined, to learn through the reflection of it which direction our experience fell or how it may have gone through both branches simultaneously. The self-assessed review of these things is not a habit I undertake nearly enough. Maybe this is a reminder to myself that I need to pay better attention to the fires, as well as the effects of it, with much more regularity.

Teamwork and communication.

A team can ONLY function as a team because of communication. The better the communication, the better the teamwork, the better the team. We have been winding down to the homestretch of this shoot with a variety of challenges. And while we have not met every one of them with full efficiency we definitely have improved the attack over the last few days and it looks quite possible we will actually pull this all off nearly as planned. Go team!

The littlest details.

As we draw to the close of this production timeline, as the deadline looms and the motivation intensifies, each challenge large and small seems to loom with similar magnitude as any one thing feels almost as destructive to the cause and the infamous Achilles' heel. So, as any artist might attest, we labor over every little detail, each polished facet with emboldened fervor akin to the surgeon's master of accuracy, subtlety and precision... even if it's only in our minds... impassioned by our hearts.