THS: The Production Assistant

A blog where you can experience the ins and outs of the film biz in NYC through the eyes of someone starting from the bottom up (with a few celebrity sighting puzzles along the way).

Wednesday, June 21, 2006

I know, I know, I'm a bad blogger

So I haven't written anything here for, ummm, a few weeks. Sorry about that. By the end of filming I didn't have much to write and I was just waiting for the night shoots to be done with. Yes, I am finished with the film. We ended on a Saturday morning around 7am and we had our wrap party later that night. All in all a good time. Definitely more money went into the wrap party than any other one I had gone too (plus they had girls dancing on little stages throughout the night. I turned to one of the actors I had become friends with and we both nodded behind our dates that "things just went up a notch".). Nothing crazy happened though, which is usually is what everyone is waiting for at these kinds of things. 4 months of pent-up frustration directed to the 5 hour open bar. A friend of mine was proposed to twice (by parking guys on the film that didn't speak much english) but other than that it was pretty tame.

Right now, I'm in Germany for the World Cup (!!!!) to see two USA matches. The first one, against Italy was last weekend and it was probably one of the best live sporting events I have been to...ever. The atmosphere was awesome, the US played their asses off and I think I might have had at least two heart attacks in the final few minutes. Tomorrow we go to see USA Vs. Ghana which has shaped up to be a prety big game. If we win, and Italy wins, then Italy and the USA go on to the second round. So please, if you care at all, cheer for the Italians. (By the way, after sitting in the Italian section during the game on Saturday, I will never ever root for that group of whinney cheaters. This week we will be rooting for them passively, but we hope they get pummeled in the second round.)

Back to the work front. Once I get back to the states I start a new TV show the following Monday. If I stay with the show, I will be working until Thanksgiving. We'll see how that goes. Episodic TV is rough to work on but it is consistant work. Ill be doing the same job as before, dealing with the actors, so we'll see how the first day goes when I have to meet and get along with 10 actors, the hair/makeup dept. and the wardrobe people. Fun Fun.

So that's the update. I'll talk more about everything once I get back. But for now, GO AMERICA! GO USA!!