The Year of Archetype: Day 36

I wish I could say something more interesting right now than the fact that I'm not nervous. I have my binder, I have my schedule, I have my shots, I have my gear, and I have enough of a crew to get it done. I'll worry about next Saturday next week.

I never really delude myself with the scope of what I'm doing, namely because of the following, which is a list of my greatest concerns for tomorrow:

• Making sure to calm down and/or cordon off the three (three!) dogs at my sister's house so I don't get audio of dogs scampering overhead during the basement scenes
  
• Hoping I'm not too imposing on my sister and brother-in-law by politely demanding to turn the television down or to get the hell out of the rooms we're shooting in
  
• Wondering if we might do the whole thing in like an hour and end up waiting around for the post-lunch plan of the special-effects make-up person coming to do their thing for a whopping one shot in the film
  
• Figuring out a place to go for lunch
  
• Having my dad drive twenty-four miles round-trip for two shots that will, in all likelihood, take fifteen minutes
  
• Hoping it's not illegal to remove the license plates of my parked car for like half an hour
  
• Not drawing a very-unlikely crowd of spectators shooting outside, given I'll be wearing short basketball shorts and a t-shirt and have a very unflattering bald head
  
• Feeling too bossy composing all the shots and running the sound check before I hand the camera over to my AD/operator

Yeah, that's about it. I should have enough material for a trailer sometime in early April, so maybe I'll have some stills shot with my crappy camera in the interim.