I’m back after a break. Not that i have been lazy, but there have been tough days and i didn’t feel like writing. We finished all the frames from kiki’s apartment (Maria), including the famous lunch scene about which i have written before. Razvan Radulescu has been on the set also and was very curious about how the scene turned out. I gather he got this idea while working on the script wth cecilia. This is how i found out that he wrote to Didi Danquart a 14 page lunch scene for OFFSET. No comment  I hope that Munteanu will get the same treatment at his film about the Revolution, at least about 15-16 pages... The settings from Maria’s room look very cool, i was quite scared of this moment. The favourite properties from the interior: a Suzana Dan painting (wedding gift), Adriana Grand’s drawings, the robot built by Adriana, and the buttons box (same) + the cherry on top: the page cut from THE FACE, where two drunk cartoon characters took the face of Chrila and Maria. Fane, our very talented property man, cut their faces from some pictures and put the instead of the original heads. It look supercool. In the last day we shoot with a little, balc, cat, that was just great. A kitten that became the star of the set. In that moment, accidentaly, i made an instant pawl to a cool line from the film where Maria tell Ioana „cats come back always alone”. Noir film title... we also shoot at the Law hostel, everyting once again OK, except for the depresive look of the hostelk, sometimes i think that 15 years have passed in vain.

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Alora,
Today we shoot. Sunday. I’m slightly confused. I fell like it is the beginning of the week.
We reshoot the scenes with the sunset... drank again beer on the roof top and talked on the terrace.
During the day we did the scenes from the shop wearing bathing suit and i was more stressed than when i had no clothes on. Mh... chirila is talking very loud. Verrryyy loud.
:)
A few nights ago, i was going home from the shootings later than usual, when i saw a stage where only the music was missing but as far as the image was concerned, it was exactly what was needed.
In front of the nike shop from the romana square, two hookers. One is sitting on the stairs that lead to the shop. She wears a short skirt with her elboes resting on her spreaded legs. She has a lavender top and is looking at her friend from one side. Around 27-30 both of them. The secound girl wears jeans that are on the verge of breaking, white top, dark coloured hair and wrongly curled. She has her hands on a pillar of a traffic sign and does an imprecise pole danc, extremly sexy, stareing at the bykers that were in front of McDonald’s. The light is excelent, the flow of energy cruel.

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we did overtime again. Today a long day.
Same as yesterday.
Tomorrow we finish the shooting from the house. It follows the dorms, shoni and pietrositza...
Tomorrow, normaly, i would have been free so i schedueled spoilings and goodies, but before getting home i found out that we still had to shoot, we had a set back, so tomorrow i will go back at the same place and hour.
Yesterday we finished the monster frame from the delicious lunch that remains in the hors d’oeuvres status. Monster because it was the first scene where i felt that it got to me more what happened in the background of the shooting than whan happend after „action”. Very hard. Three days at the same table, with the same people, wearing the same clothes and the same stuffed pepper on the set. I still got so much to learn. Being patience would be one of them. I’m hurried, i get easily nervous when the others are no in the same rhythm as i am and this is not right. Then, yesterday night i had to shoot tendernesses with my brother.pam pam. Early today again tendernesses, again with my brother. This isn’t the easiest thing either. But, surprisingly, i was relaxed, more relaxed than in the other films when it came to foreplays, sexual acts and afterplays. Last night i laughed together with alex and tudor about the story from love actually, with the light doubles that work in a porno film, and although they were in explicite situations and positions, they wore in themselvs a melodious and charming grace. It hasn’t much to do with my story but it was a first not to comsume myself so hard and useless.

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These are hard to shoot. Many angles, connections between characters, the worry not to „jump over the axle”. In the frst day i always was tempted to cut the frame intro pieces, but i chilled in time, it would have been nonsense.
You have an appetite! Mine is meat balls and stuffed pepper with cheese paste. The meat balls don’t count.
They are boring. The cast forget the coupling, u have to shoot somehow continuously.
If you have a cast made out of actors of different genres and age (my case) you have to get in the role seriously and lead them where you want to. Or else, you are in trouble. Some wait for the close up, others joke and you can hear them through the four-in-hand tie, some are absent, some want to seem funny and others hate those who want to be funny. The food rots out like today’s tomato of miss Tora. You have to keep yours eyes focused, like on the gas cylinder, for the pressed cheese and many more not to „loosen up”. All in all it was a thrilling day. Maybe only for me, popistasu was fed up. I could see her through the half-opened door and i was trying to encourage her through signs.

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I’m sleepy. I still have to finish choosing some pictures for „my room”. Pictures with kiki as a child. Borrowed from little maria.
Today was a day that seemed not to end. Indeed i wished it would end. Endddd... at one moment all around me people were asking what the time was. I think it has been a dull day for many. Ioana was very bored, way beyond, miss tora was playing in the mustard bowl and was throwing bread at the crew. Mister vali was going out for a smoke and was wiping his nape, chirila couldn’t stop from making jokes and even alex (sterian, i told u, the d.o.p) „froze” in jokes by the end of the day. Nea pompi stranded still on a 30 cube. Tomorrow would be the third day we shoot the frame with the meal at the parvulescu’s house. And the last one. We’re left 2 pages out of 9.

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