A Year in Pictures of Working

The Whirled News cast shot our video this weekend (hopefully the first of many, but who knows). I wanted to seem somewhat professional, but seeing the cameras and the lights and the set, it was hard not to have a dumbstruck grin on my face. Especially the set. Our set.

Glynn: It's crazy that this little sketch I doodled a couple days ago is a set now.

This was the moment when it hit me...

I was on the set, getting ready to shoot the first scene, an easy scene, short, uncomplicated. I didn't have any lines to worry about yet. I knew my character, I'd written it myself and knew it fit snuggly within the limited range of my acting ability. We'd rehearsed. We'd set up shots. Everyone was laughing and making jokes. It was just like hanging out with friends.

Then someone yelled, "Quiet on the set," and everything went immediately quiet. Every last noise disappeared, as if sucked out of an airlock, leaving behind a deep empty silence.

And I thought, "Holy shit."

And someone yelled, "Action!"

# posted by Arnie : 9:53 PM