During the Winter Olympics the streets of Vancouver were packed with people. It wasn’t strange to see 5 and 6 hour line ups to pavilions and activities. Shoulder-to-shoulder people sandwiched onto public transportation. A constant stream of folk milled around downtown, walking up and down the streets.
Now that the Olympics are over, the streets are more back to normal, but somehow “normal” feels like ghost-town empty. An echo of all that excitement is all that remains. What a familiar echo. I know it. It’s the same echo I feel the day after working on a film shoot. Wrap. All those work hours, all that activity, all that interaction… over in a day.
It’s production wrap. I sit on the back porch, completed exhausted. Do I have the energy to make myself even a cup of tea? Will I ever have the energy to “do it all again”? How very alone I feel. Very uniquely alone.
Time to rejuvenate. Recharge those personal batteries. No more thinking about the needs of “today”, I need to think about “tomorrow”. But first perhaps take a trip. Time to take some breathing room time to remember the reason why I got into this business in the first place. I trust my internal flame will re-light. And it does. And yes… I’m be ready, actually eager, to do it all again! Whattabiz!
Best wishes & a great shoot & wrap to you!
Deb
It was the end of the shoot. A partial box of dry ice remained. Not enough to sell to another set. A shame to throw it out. We gathered out back of the studio on a little patch of green. On overturned milk crates, director’s chairs, apple boxes, a few lawn chairs. The bucket of water between us… and the dry ice bubbling out of it and tumbling and rolling onto and across the ground around us. Good company. Easy conversation. The team together. A magical moment after wrap.