"A Road to Happiness" - on the set - day 2 of shooting July 16th - take 4

So starting with this post I will be posting in english because of popular demand...

The seconds day of shooting was almost one month later than the first one, only because I had many other plans and it was also quite difficult to find a day (during summer) which was suitable for 2 other actors - Theodor Tabor from my schools theater class and another actor guy Oliver "Kivor" Kivi, make up artist - my brothers girlfriend Gasanna, camera man - this time my other brother, Joel and me myself. Thank god there were only so few people I needed to take account of. That's actually something I thought off right from the beginning when I decided to play the lead role myself (not only I wanted to challenge myself and get to know what it's like to be in front of the camera and what I am going to want to get from my actors in the future, but it also made planning set days a lot more easier.) Still I had to waste many of my nerve cells because right one week before the shooting day one of my friends who had to play one of the roles got really sick and it wasn't sure until the very last second if he could still play the role or not. Then the whole week I tried to find someone else for the role which was almost impossible thing to do, because everyone who were suitable for the role and knew something about acting were out of town or had plans for the exact day. So I was hoping for my friend to get better, but one night before I understood that it is not going to happen. Then thanks to my brothers girlfriend Gasanna, who was also doing the make up for this days shoot, we found a guy with one day notice, which was miracle. I was almost ready to cancel the shoot, because the other guy was also sick (but he said he will still come) and me myself had gotten ill. Also I had not slept the previous day because of the awesome 30 Seconds to Mars concert and so I was very tired and sick myself. Only thanks to so much work I had already put into that shootingday and inspiration I got from the concert I decided to still do it and work hard for accomplishing my dreams. So pleased that I did it and didn't give up!

But it still wasn't easy. In the morning I felt terribly sick and tired and had to still pack all the props, camera equipment and make sure I have everything I need. I also had to make sure that everyone will make it to the appartment we were shooting (thank god I have place where I could shoot without having to take account of somebodys elses plans.) and that we will make it on time. Shooting a film is very tense because when you are making it all on your own then there are so many things you have to remember and think about - the bigest tension is - "can and do you get everything you need from the shoots?"
With those thoughts and all the stuff we had (all the equipments and props) we headed to the place we started shooting.

Some of the props and the equipment.

We started aroung 7'o clock in the evening. First Gasanna did a make-up for me and then we started shooting.

Gasanna doing amazing job

We had to shoot many different things - 1. before the other actors got there we shot a waking up scene with me and how I messed up the apartment.

2. when other guys were there and had got their make-up we shot the phone call.

I had a chance to get behind the camera aswell for some shots :)

3. Then we had to do two very important scenes where three best friends have two very iportant conversations - we started memorizing lines and playing it through. It took a lot of time, bu it was much fun and easy to work with such awesome guys and great actors. Had a great on the set chemestry and we played off eachothers reactions. Guys did a great job and delivered exactly what I was expecting from them.

The scenes we had to do this day where very emotional, so I had to do a lot of crying. I hope I did great. Big thanks to Gasanna for such awesome make-up and also Vietnam balm which I rubbed under my eyes to get the tears coming. It was very painful when it got in my eyes, but made it all more believable, so it was def worth it!

I have to honestly say that this time it was also much easier to get in to the role, maybe it was easier because it was such a great guys-best-friends kinda scenes or it's just easier to act around those guys because they were great actors and were making great jokes aswell. We finished with those two shoots for 30 minutes past midnight. Since buses didn't go to the citycenter anymore we had to call for a taxi and headed to the old town, where we had to shoot final scenes with those guys. Luckily it wasn't raining and everything went well. Joel, who isn't so great with the camera, as Hans did an amazing job and deliver exactly what I had in mind, what I had drawed through on the storyboards.

Joel as the cameraman, Thedor, me and Kivor doing the acting.

Filming in the oldtown in the evening.

Then I headed back to the apartment by foot alone and got there when it was past 1. There we had to still shoot one scene (Hans was there) which is a opening scene of the movie - how I - with charecter name Henry - was waking up in his messed up apartment, being depressed and how he flips and how he messes up the apartment. For this time I was tired as hell, but decided to still do it. It took a lot time and patience, but we still managed to do it. Finally I was able to go to sleep when it was almost 4'o clock in the morning.

I had an amazing, very tense and tiring 9 hours on the set, thank you everyone, it was so much fun and you did an amazing job!