Adventures in Producing . Part 2
/15.03.12 . Barcelona
Yeah well, weather forecasts. I just learned to give a ... We had been on location, ready to shoot since 5:45 a.m. 14 people standing in the dark, staring at the horizon, waiting for the glistening sun to rise at precisely 5:59 a.m. But nothing happened. At 7 a.m. it finally got a tiny bit lighter and we could see why there was nothing to see: the sun had risen behind a massive wall of black clouds. It was freezing cold and the beach looked awful. We decided to wait until the sky would open up. Couldn't be that long, right?
Wrong. For the next 8 hours we shared blankets, life stories and incredulous stares at weather apps. At one point we acutually tried to shoot, but once stripped off their blankets, our models' lips would turn blue and their uncontrollable shivering (unalluringly amplified by shooting in slow motion) was something the client probably didn't think he payed for.
Around 2 p.m. panic set in: there would be no sunbeams on this beach today. Location scout Xavi ventured out and reported: only 10 minutes away, he had found a bright blue sky and the sun (I put this down to a meteorological mystery). We raced over, rolled the camera and suddenly it was 4 p.m. - which is, of course, Spanish lunch time. 8 hours waiting, one hour shooting, one hour lunch. If you don't tell, I won't :-)
