. . . a summer's day?

Yesterday we filmed Sonnet #18 starring Lindsey Rendon. Lindsey starred as the dead wife in my last film "Countdown" and she was so fun to work with that I asked her to come back for a sonnet, we had discussed it briefly awhile ago and she had picked out Sonnet #18, which I later found out is one of the more famous ones . . . so no pressure on us. On Wednesday we had scouted out a really cool park right next to Lindsey's house, and it provided everything we needed for the shoot, like a tree swing, flowers, big open fields, and little coves where teenagers smoke pot . . . uhh, we didn't need that, this is a drug-free film . . . just say no and take a bite out of crime. Anyway, I was really excited to film until that morning when I was driving to work the heavens dumped all its rage onto Austin, and I was depressed because its summer and its raining and we would have to delay the filming. However, a blessing came and when it was time to shoot at 12:30, it was blue skies . . . that was mostly cloudy. I think Shakespeare probably imagined a very different day than that one when comparing his muse to "a summer's day", one that had less mosquitoes and more . . . summery. The important thing though, was that it had stopped raining. We went out on the field and I had Lindsey walk around not having the slightest clue what she was doing taking directions from me who was just pretending to know what he was doing. We also had Chris Bucheit star as the guy. He had come the day before for a photo shoot which was necessary for this film, and he was there for a short time during the filming, but when he was there I was cracking up the whole time, just cause I can't direct any kind of romantic scenes (why then am I making films of sonnets? . . . . I ask myself that a lot, and I still don't have an answer) what was supposed to be romantic first turned out to be awkward (sums up my dating life, except, its always awkward). But we eventually got it down. Kyle Dorwart, who is always and ever-ready crew member manned the boom mic and Dan Jones returned again as the behind the scenes documenter. After about an hour and a half Lindsey had to go to work so Dan and Kyle and I took some more shots and came up with a stellar idea for a pilot webisode called "Joe Striker" I can't reveal too much, but think Dan Jones . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . with a mullet. Need I say more?
We continued filming later that evening when Lindsey was done with work. William Jackson (who is one of my heroes by the way) was the crew and we shot the dark room scenes and finished up with Lindsey in the field walking around for 20 minutes taking fake pictures of nothing while I filmed, but it will look cool in the end. Peace out for now