Late Nights in Los Angeles
Hello one and all, and Happy June.
This week finds me in Los Angeles working on set. It's a welcome change from the office. Not to demean the experience the production office gave me, of course, because it taught me a great deal about the overall operation of a feature film. More importantly, it also taught me that the office is not where I belong; rather, being on set puts me more where I see myself working as a career.
We are shooting all nights here in Los Angeles, which is difficult, because it means working all night and sleeping all day. Sleeping during daylight hours can be difficult, but thankfully the place I am staying has fairly well covered windows. I am living in a house in Sherman Oaks with a Notre Dame-connected family. Yah, that's right - I had never met them before I showed up at their door to move in. Notre Dame is great, and continues to give me advantage upon advantage even a year after graduation. The night shoots are long and strange, especially when you consider that "lunch" is between 11 p.m. and 1 a.m. each night.
I want to give a shout out here to my good friend Adam Fairholm, who not only took over for me as executive producer of NDtv after I graduated, but who also interned on RENT during our last three weeks in San Francisco. He got to enjoy many exciting moments working on the film, while at the same time enduring the long hours that the film industry offers, which most people new to the industry aren't ready for. So here's to Adam, and his new, post-internship dream of working for the Food Network!
Anyhow, the voices in my head* are running non-stop, so I feel it is best that I finish this post.
* For those of you who were resourceful/curious enough to get this far, the voices in my head are coming from the walkie-talkie earpiece I am currently wearing.