I started today all ready to tackle the making of our documentary, hoping in my naivety that we'd giet quite a bit done today. Ideas for establishing shots, interviews, time lapses were all abounds. Everyone was due to be ready and while we were planning a tight schedule I remained confident we could keep it. After all, it was only last night that we sat down and made it for today. In what I've come to realize was gross arrogance I thought there was very little room for error.
This morning was an exercise in humility. I can see quite clearly now that it was a well deserving one, but at the time of teaching I thought it was quite unfair. It seems the world has scooped up fourty-eight hours, neat as you please, and tossed them out of the nearest window. It has thoroughly dashed our plans to make a decent headstart on our next video project. Between promises to siblings, works shifts for key people, and prior obligations the first day was scratched out completely. Tuesday doesn't look much better with the whole afternoon lost to appointments and the entire evening taken with that old Kung Fu thing.
The whole situation has a bit of a stinger on it as well; both of these days were meant to be back ups. The original shoot was due to be taken on Sunday, but we didn't have any better luck getting the required people together then either. A further catch is the complete lack of free time I have later in the week, postponing the entire affair until the next weekend.
To say I find it irritating would be a terrible understatement, but it's not that I'm annoyed at people. In fact it's more than I don't have a person to be annoyed at that bugs me. Here we find an odd combination of luck and already tricky timetables; an effective but depressingly intangible excuse for the utter collapse of our plans.
Ah well, I guess I'll take a swing at the next 'murphy' I see.
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