Day 255: Washrooms and Such

31 July, 2010

Yet another interesting day of shoot. This time, we had to shoot in a ladies' washroom. We choose a public washroom of an office building which would not require special access or usage permissions but which should be pretty free on a weekend. Now there are several interesting things that happen when you choose to shoot in a washroom.

Firstly there is hardly any space to move around, so the director (who is also the cameralady in this case) has to twist and turn and balance in every possible way to be able to look through the viewfinder, while making sure that she is not in the frame or in the way of the actors or her tripod is steady etc. It was like I got my yoga class for the day.

Secondly, anything can happen anytime. Including lights going out or random flushes going off. Half way down the shoot, the lights in the washroom went off. We were not in pitch darkness or anything because the emergency lights were still on, but the nice big lights that we were shooting under till then, decided to go off. That's when we realized that it is half-day on a saturday for the washroom lights in this particular building. Fair enough. Since there was no way we could convince anyone there to give us back our nice big lights, all we could do was reshoot the whole thing. Also for some reason, once in a while the flush in one of the cubicles decides to go off itself. It was intriguing.

Thirdly, for the first time in my life, I actually ate something while being in a washroom. That might sound gross but I was starving! I had not had a proper meal for 24 hours and I could not wait to eat the KFC Popcorn Chicken my ever supportive hubby got for me.

So there it was another interesting day of shoot.

In other good things that happened, I had dinnerl at Swadishth after a long time. Hubby, two friends and I devoured a meal of Puttu, Kadala, Egg Podimas, Prawn Olarthiyathu, Chicken Ishtu, Appam, Paratha, Thalassery Chicken Biriyani and Soda Lime Juice. SLURP! :)

745 more to go.