Scheduling Conflicts

 In order to shoot, we needed to wake up early one day to drive down the beach, which requires waking up at 4am. I also had to tie in feeding both of my actresses on the way there so nobody was cranky.

I had two seperate days I had to film (scene one for golden hour at the beach and scenes 2-3 at Maddie's house), so I had to find a day where not only am I free, but my actresses are free. Both my actresses are in the school musical with important parts (Maddie was the main female lead and Elena is stage manager), so they had rehersals most days from 12pm-9pm, except for Sundays, which they had free.

I also run a busy schedule and since I work as a soccer ref, sometimes I get game assignments a couple days before I have to be on the field, or in some cases I get assigned at midnight the day beforehand. I also had ball person training for the Miami Open on Sunday (Feb. 19th) from 7:30am-12:30pm, Monday and Thursday (Feb. 20th and 23rd) from 4:30pm-9:30pm, and Saturday and Sunday (Feb. 25th and 26th) from 7:30am-12:30pm. This takes up time and so does my practice schedule for tennis (I try to train twice a week at my academy in Sunrise from 3:30pm-6:30pm) and I coach my little brother's soccer team (who had a game at 1pm on Saturday, Feb. 18th). I also have school tennis practices and school matches, which there was one on Tuesday Feb. 21st.

Here's a visual representation of any open blocks of time

I decided since the school musical was being presented the 23rd-25th, that I should do it the weekened beforehand (18th-20th). I couldn't film during the week either because I got assigned games to ref on Tuesday-Thursday from 5:15pm-10pm. I texted both my actresses to make sure they were definetly free Saturday (Feb. 18th) from 5am-10am. They luckily were and only needed to be back hom for their 12pm rehersal, so I made plans to pick them up early in the morning to drive down to the beach.

I then had to make tentative plans with Maddie to film on Sunday (Feb. 19th), but I wasn't sure of my schedule. I could only film after 1pm and Maddie was only free up until 4pm. There was a chance that I could get assigned games to ref from 1pm-7pm, but luckily this didn't happen, so I was able to film with Maddie on Sunday, so everything was able to get shot.