Cut! Print that.

At this point, I am pretty sure that I am not dreaming, that I am not going to suddenly wake up, realize that I am actually on-set and two hours behind schedule.

I did it. I got through my shoot this weekend.

Okay, I will admit that I did a little bit more than merely get through the shoot. While my gut instinct was that it was going to go extremely well, I did not want to go into it with any degree of false confidence. And the fact is that, even though I knew what I was doing, I know that you are only right until someone starts saying that you’re wrong and you have to prove yourself.

That didn’t happen.

Everything went extremely well.

People are making comments on Facebook:

“David showed such a calm focus despite the organized chaos around him.”

“....how relaxed you were, David!”

“Great experience working on your set, David. Thank you.”

and from my DP:

“I completely admired your poise and calm from beginning to end. In the pressure cooker environment of a film set, emotions can run high and quickly escalate, but your example truly helped to keep things on an even keel and flowing smoothly. I definitely hope to work together again soon!”

I had to remind everyone that I was only able to do what I did because all of them are so, so good at what they do.

I first worked on a “real” set about 25 years ago and, in my early 20’s, I worked on quite a few sets. I can remember looking at the directors on those shoots and thinking to myself, “I could do that.” I looked around at the crew over this past weekend and wondered how many of them were looking at me and thinking “I could do that.” The fact is, many of them probably can do it. I hope they get to do it. I wanted to do it for so long and now, having done it for the first time at this level, I feel good.

I want to do it again and again...