Working together...

Day 1 of shooting this week.

We had our DP back in to tweak the lighting. What was interesting about this was that we had originally lit the set, got it approved, and moved ahead with no worries shooting 100 (that's right *ONE HUNDRED*) episodes before the client called to say he'd like us to tweak.

You'd think, that after 100 episodes, he'd be cool with what we were doing.

Right?

Wrong.

And it's a VERY GOOD THING.

See, we re-lit, and not only that, we re-structured the show, creating three new rundowns from scratch, again, to match tweaks that the client wanted us to execute.

Now, let's be clear, it'd be VERY easy (for me) to bristle when a client asks for changes after such a long time doing things the same way. However, we didn't bristle, we just executed his notes and, wouldn't you know it, the show is turning out MUCH better as a result.

Not only is the show looking better, its got a better story-design now, AND (wonder of wonders--I NEVER would have expected this...) it's shooting quicker.

Wild.

So, lemme' just say, this fairly independent-minded guy got a real poignant lesson in the value of collaboration this week.

Working together.

Good stuff.

T