Such a Busy Bee!

Since I last wrote, I have been super busy! I know, I know, I say that all the time. My crew filmed four movies this weekend; all were at my apartment. We started at 9am and went until 9:30pm. Then we started again at 10:30 Sunday morning, and finished at 8pm. Believe me when I say that my poor body just didn't even know what to do with itself. I was so exhausted! And then we had to be back at school at 8:15am on Monday. So yes, no weekends for us!

But even before that, on Friday afternoon, we got to go to a screening of Twister and the Q&A session that followed. The director, De Bont, came and spoke to us. He also worked on Die Hard, The Hunt for Red October, Speed, and many other films. Before he became a director, he was a cinematographer. He told us this crazy story about working on a film with Melanie Griffith and some other actress, whose name I don't remember, and a whole bunch of lions. Apparently, they had built some sort of pit for him to lay in and film, while the lions just walked over him. Well, one of the lions decided to turn back. Melanie Griffith and the other actress had a scene that was screaming, so when De Bont started to scream as he was being attacked by a lion, no one even noticed. He said the lion pretty much scalped him and he spent the next week in the hospital with 238 stitches in his head. Crazy!

There was a screening and Q&A last night for Toy Story, but I just knew that if I didn't take the night off and relax, that I would kill over and die. One of my classmates told me that Toy Story originally was rated R, but that they had to tone it down for the kiddies. Luckily, my school records all of the Q&A sessions, so I can check it out in the library.

I'm off to Denver tomorrow for my buddy's wedding, but I'm filming my movie on Sunday, when I get back. More to come!