OK, I'm awake and alive after the longest film shoot I've ever been on. I was script supervisor on a sci-fi short for the 48 Hour Film Project yesterday. They're setting up to shoot the last couple of scenes right now but I couldn't make it today. It was so much fun! We all got to the editor's house early yesterday morning, most of us on little sleep from the night before. Anne and I had been out late the night before at the SF World Film Festival (the films we saw were really cool, and I got over enough of my bitterness about being rejected from it to enjoy them). Many of the crew members were up all night getting ready. The script was called "In the Dark" and the premise is that this guy who was paralyzed in an accident now controls the body of this guy who was catatonic in a mental hospital. Puppet man meets girl and things go bad. There were 5 locations: a park, a house, a roof deck, an alleyway and a futuristic hospital room. We did the park first, then the house, and by the time we were setting up the hospital of the future, it was past 10pm. We wrapped that after midnight and they're meeting today (probably as I type) to pick up the alleyway and rooftop deck shots which should be nice quickies. Here's the cool thing... they were able to get the guy who runs DVGarage to do their CG shots. This is the guy who created Queen Amidala's ship in the Phantom Menace! Last night he was taking wide shots of the SF skyline and futurizing them up. They've been editing since last night and need to turn it in to the organizers at 7pm tonight. Tomorrow and Wednesday night they'll be shown at the Roxy theater in the Mission. While toward the end it got exhausting, it was so much fun to be working on a film again, and particularly one that I wasn't completely in charge of. The crew were awsome! The DP and cameraman had all sorts of lighting, gels and screens and knew what to do with them. The cameraman had even built his own steadycam out of bike parts (and I'm hoping that he starts making them to sell sometime soon!). They had a boom operator (yeah, I know, every film except Washington Interns Gone Bad has a boom operator). They even had craft services in the form of lots of food which they were able to get donated from different places. I got to meet a lot of very cool people who I would definitely work with in the future. I can't wait to see this thing.