The Year of Archetype: Day 73

Lessons learned from yesterday's shoot:

• Even when the topside temperature is relatively balmy given March standards, standing on an unshielded wind-plain makes it very, very cold.
  
• Wind doesn't blow. It sucks.
  
• When switching between the onboard mic for junk-audio takes and the boom, makes sure to turn off the onboard when going back to the boom, else the boom won't get a feed.
  
• Wear headphones to make sure the above doesn't happen.
  
• Dogs don't like running on school blacktops. It hurts their paws.
  
• Don't turn the gain past 6 dB lest you want your shots to look like a smear of action or light amid a level of noise equivalent to the cosmic microwave background.
  
• Memorize a shot list if you're shooting in the pitch dark, else you'll be blinding yourself with a flashlight when you shine it on a white sheet that reflects back into you and wrecks your nightvision.
  
• Don't schedule a day that involves having the cast and crew sitting in your bedroom for several hours, waiting for it to get dark.
  
• When doing on-location foley, make sure you're not doing the foley and holding the mic simultaneously.
  
• Apparently a colony of owls live in the woods behind Gideon Pond, and last night they seemed to go to war.

Also, happy one-year anniversary of Transmissions' release.