Disaster

You know it's bad when a conversation starts with, "Please don't kill me."

I got a call from my director with some bad news. The footage we shot was accidentally recorded over. At first I thought it was an April Fool's joke, but he promised he wouldn't joke about something like that. Especially when he knows how important this project is to me.

His friend borrowed his camera without his knowledge and used it to record some auditions he was having. He taped right over all the footage we had completed. My director hadn't dumped the footage onto his computer as of yet.

AHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!

We were supposed to continue filming the scene tonight but there was no point without the first part we had shot as it wouldn't match.

So I'm heading back to the drawing board and reworking the scene so that it's shorter and so that we can shoot it in a few hours rather than across a few days.

I figure everything happens for a reason so I am going to take the next few days and work hard on getting this scene down to a minute. My plan is to do a one minute intro to let the producers know I'm breaking all their submission rules. Then I submit my song + scene, which in total will run the four minutes they are allocating for the song submission. My song is at 2min37sec, which means my scene can only be a maximum of 1min23sec.

The plan is to shoot on Monday. Wish me luck! Or at least wish my footage to not get recorded over again!