It was a long day today. A commercial shoot first thing this morning. On green screen. Special attention must be
paid to the lighting and the framing. The client was a little late, the script wasn't right (too long) and had to be edited.
An hour and a half later, script re-written, we started again only to learn the talent had trouble memorizing lines.
Stop down again. Change out tripods and add a teleprompter (like a cue card, but electronic), type the script into the
teleprompter, then rehearse again. First too slow, then too fast... Finally, everyone gets it right.

Now it's time to break for lunch. A chinese food buffet later, I'm editing and finding that the script is still too long.
What can we cut? Now it's time to composite (get rid of the green screen and replace it with other video) the whole
mess and see if it works... it does, but just barely. A cut her and there and I'm down to finessing 30's of a second...

The highlight of the day was using a video camera that shoots like a film camera; same gamma curves and 24 frames
per second. This camera makes everything look beautiful. Today was no exception...

Now it's time to go home. Cat and I were going to go to the movie tonight, a foreign film about belly dancing, but we
never made it. We opted for sandwiches and Monty Python's "The Meaning Of Life". Cathi had never seen the movie.
I laughed all the way through, quoting bits of the movie. She didn't care for the "wafer thin" scene...

Is it any wonder this eye is tired?