BUSY BUSY BUSY!!!

so… i’ve been pretty busy lately, and it’s been keeping me from blogging. Here’s the scoop:

First there was two weeks of casting for My Super Sweet Top Secret Class. I call it such because of the non-disclosures we had to sign the second day of class (I kid you not). In this class, a special projects class in the film department, we’re producing a web series. It’s going to be pretty sweet, let me tell you…
anyway, we did some casting for two weeks. tuesday, wednesday: auditions. kept me in the HFAC until 1 and 2 in the morning, respectively. The next week, tuesday: more auditions; wednesday: callbacks. similar late hours were involved. needless to say I was Dead Tired after all was said and done.

But it WASN’T all said and done. Because the following Monday, the monday before Thanksgiving, we filmed some screentests for the two possible actors for the main character.
What we did was film a short scene, twice, once with each actor. Three characters were involved: main character, side kick/best friend and a gun man. The main character and side kick were taken care of, and a guy on the crew was gonna be the gunman, but then he had to leave early and the director spun around: “ummmmmm–David. You’re the gun man.”
So I put on my dark black coat, and skulked around the basement of the HFAC with a very realistic looking fake gun. it took 18 takes to get the first shot done right. but not all of the redos were my fault…

found out inbetween the two shoots (the two different screen tests) that we were supposed to clear the prop gun with this guy named Frank. We also found out that if someone had seen the gun and called the police, they were supposed to respond as though it was an actual gun (can’t take any chances), so if whoever had the gun, i.e. me, had turned at the sound of the approaching police officers with the gun still in my hand, the cops would have shot me.

i had almost died.

i felt really nauseous. Apparently it had happened in St. George a little while ago, and at USC too.
I was already risking my life for this show. literally.

those who know me well would not be surprised.

I almost forgot to mention: the friday and saturday before this all-day shoot were spent at work. 5 basketball games in two days! and my job requires standing. On friday I stood in the same place for 7 hours! with a half hour break. But still. 7 HOURS! The next day was slightly better. I only had to stand 5 hours. In that exact same spot. I was soooo bored. but i got a nice paycheck on friday, so it’s ok.

After that horrible weekend, it was Thanksgiving Break! In SAN DIEGO!!! It was a wonderful vacation. It was a ten hour drive both ways, but somehow i didnt’ get that bored and my legs didn’t even fall asleep. I rode with a guy named Nathan, whose parents know my aunt and uncle (the ones who live in SD and invited me to come visit). We didnt’ talk much on the way down, but i was really tired after my 7am-10:30pm shooting day the day before. What we did find out, however, is that Nathan bought a car from my uncle for five dollars. This same car had been given to my uncle by my father. It was the car that brought me home from the hospital! Small World!
The weather was great, by the way. Not only did I wear t-shirts outside at night time, I slept with the window open. It was marvelous!
I ended up walking away with two new pairs of jeans, a hoodie-jacket, an argile sweater and a new scarf. I’m going to send a pair of jeans back, they’re skinny jeans and tall people + skinny jeans = high-waters.

This past weekend was spent in Tooele with my mother’s parents. Two vacation weeks in a row! I went with my grandmother to see Quantum of Solace (my grandfather never takes her to movies) and hung out with my black cousins. They’re less than 10 years old and are a little shy towards me, but who cares.

Now I’m back in Provo and I have SOOOO much to do this week, it’s crazy. But I’ve caught myself up on my blog, so that’s good.

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