Blood and guts

HI!!!

Today will be our third day of filming Blood Brothers, and it feels like it is going well, but slowly. We seem to always run late, but I guess that's just the nature of the job. Things are coming together still, but I'm enjoying the lifestyle. The 'powers that be' will not let me work more than 10 hours (+ 30 mins lunch break), so cos I'm needed on set late tonight, I'm not starting till 12. It'll be a long day, but I've finally worken up feeling refreshed from my sleep.

Yesterday, I got to spend some time on the actual set, not just with the 'unit' base 20m away. The costume standby needed an extra set of hands because we were filming two different pieces at once - she was upstairs with the main cast and most of the crew, and I was downstairs with a 3rd Assistant Director, Props man, Camera man, and an actor - filming close ups of stabbing. I'm not going to lie - I felt quite nausious. Props man -  Simon - had rigged up a pork belly with syringes and tubes so that it would 'bleed' when our actor stabbed it. I was there to provide the clothes, so that our pig matched the characters they were meant to. I felt like throwing up whe a bit og pig flesh flew off the bloody knife and onto my leg. Even knowing it's all fake isnt enough sometimes, as we are trying to recreate what happens when a real person actually gets stabbed.

In other news, I'm emailing my resume and portfolio out to some other future potential employers today; it's a really good idea to email the next job looking for work BEFORE the current one ends. So that's what I'm doing. Fingers crossed, eh?

Gotta run, or I will be late, as there is so much to do!