First Day of Filming "Single Daddies" (Thurs, Jan. 27)

As you can see...way too much make up!

First day of filming I arrive about ten minutes early. No make up on and hair undone since in the call sheet it mentioned that make up would be done there.  My call time was 11am.  I get to the house and I find people scattered around outside, upstairs, and some downstairs covering the carpet with plastic.  They guided me to the make up artist who had such a bubbly personality and I felt very comfortable with.  I took everything I could possibly imagine that I could need only to find out that she had everything as well.  The director was very specific with her telling her I had to look super hot.  I guess at the moment he thought it would not be possible because he kept repeating it and since I looked so simple with no make up on.  Well, because of his persistence the make up artist ended up putting a bunch of make up on, that I did not like.  She put a bunch of black eyeshadow and lots of foundation that did not look natural.  I felt like I had a mask on.  I saw her looking at false eye lashes and I recommended the ones that I had with me but she refused and put some that were so thin you could not see any difference.  I was so frustrated! I officially hate other people doing my make up.  To this day only one person has done my make up and I actually liked it.  Well, she said that since the camera's were HD she didn't want some thing too fake.  RRGGGHHHH!!!

The scene I had to do that day was an interview scene and according to the director, my character only used her looks to get what she wanted and the way that she did my make up I just didn't feel into character.  So after wards I went into the bathroom and gave my self some touch ups.  My hair was not great either.  I can do my hair so much better.  She didn't give me enough volume on the top and it looked a bit weird. 

First thing I had to do was a recording of my voice that was supposed to be my voice mail.  We went upstairs and and recorded a few times until I got it.  It was a bit difficult at first because I had absolutely no idea how they wanted me to play the character.  When I submitted myself the only description was "latina or asian preferred, she auditions to be baby sitter but is lazy and doesn't get hired.  She ends up dating one of the dads." Then on the script it was hard to comprehend since it didn't fully describe wardrobe and things like that.  The director was very good at describing what he wanted though and I quickly got it.  We had lunch at around 2:30pm and they did a few other scenes that needed to be done during the daytime.  Then we finally did my scene.  I was very happy that I took the outfit I took even though it didn't as for it in the call sheet.  It was perfect for my character: pencil skirt with a low cut blouse and plenty of jewelry. 

During the first scene my back was toward the cameras.  They were filming the reactions of the three dads when my character comes in.  To make me feel comfortable the director told me to close my eyes so I wouldn't feel uncomfortable.  It worked perfectly because the faces I could them making every now and then that I glanced were pretty dirty lol.  After about ten takes they got it and it was my turn.  They did a pan up of me and then we started my scene.  It only took about 4 takes for me to get it which was very exciting for me.  They loved how they only had to tell me once I what they wanted and I pretty much did it exactly.  After we were done we took pictures of us for continuity and I was wrapped for the day. 

The girl who was there to play the other character that they actually got hired got there and to be honest with you all, she looked a bit old for her role.  And I could spot that her boobs were fake.  Not trying to hate on her or anything.  Just pointing it out.  I was very nice to her though.  Well, after that I got my stuff ready and went on home to reality. 

That day my sister said she was going to call SPCA so they could pick up my dog.  I was so sad but I got home and found out that she called and told them that our dog bit our other dog and they told her they would just put her to sleep.  I was not going to allow that.  It was just too much for me to handle at the time and I told them that we could discuss what we were going to do with the dogs whenever I finished filming and that was that.  But since then my nerves have been at their peak always scared that the incident will repeat. 

I tried not to think about it.  I wanted to go to sleep since I got home given that I only had 1.5 hours of sleep the night before but I was waiting on the call sheet for the next day since I didn't know what time I had to be there, what scene we were doing or what I had to wear.  I wanted to make sure I didn't have to be there at like 8am or something.  So I waited and waited and ended up going to sleep at almost 11pm and still no call sheet.  The next day I kept texting them and emailing them but no response.  She finally told me to I didn't have to be there until 1pm and that I had to wear some lingerie for the scene we were filming that day. (I was not very comfortable with that!)