Shooting Day Cancelled

ORIGINAL BLOG POST SEPTEMBER 23 2009


So out of the blue and with 2 hours notice, Jade Houston cancelled today's
shoot.

Leave it to our resident Diva to blow an entire day.

We were scheduled to shoot 'The Cold Open', which in Television Terms, is the part
of the show you see before the opening credits - before the unsuspecting audience
knows what they are watching.

It's 'the hook' so to speak, your one chance to 'get them' before they turn the channel, and around here we take particular pride in this portion of our show. If we don't have a killer cold open, we don't start shooting the show.

So... in today's case, our cold open features Jade, and a new actress named Nikki, who have an interesting collision with David Hurley. But without Jade, we had to cancel Nikki, and our entire day gets flushed down the toilet.

So now D.J.'s pissed, and pacing around The Play Place like a caged Tiger.
I don't really blame him, because we prepped for a week for today's shoot.
Everyone retired early last night, got up early this morning, and we reconviened
at The Play Place ready for a day that would really start Series 3 of 'the show'
with a real... uhm. 'Bang'.

I've been in this industry long enough to know that 'shit happens'. Model's flake out,
lights blow up, shots don't always look the way you have them in your head.

These things are escalated working for Marie Madison, because she doesn't use Talent Agency's. She doesn't hire 'Professionals', so what you end up with is - well, Un Professionals.

When it all lines up, it's magical. Jade's performance in "Series 1" and "Series 2" is some of the best I've ever seen, and well, people are still talking about her turn in "Regarding Jenny".

So, you put up with it. You re-write, and you move on.

That's 'the biz', as I've learned it for the last 10 years.

Oh, well.

- Mark