Mine

I know it's been a couple days since my last post. Sorry! Things have been absolutely crazy here in NM.

So, yesterday I found out that Taylor Swift's first single from her upcoming album ("Speak Now," scheduled to drop on October 25 this year), "Mine," was released just the day before. Of course, I rushed to iTunes as soon as I heard the news and downloaded the song. May I just say that I think it's adorable? So cute!

Anyway, these past two days have been CRAZY on set. Yesterday, I was going to shoot my "love scene" with Charlie (played by the brilliant Blake Michael)....

Technically speaking, it isn't really a love scene. But my character, Victoria, is in love with Charlie and in this scene Charlie realizes that he maybe likes Victoria, too.

ANYWAY...

We rehearsed it a couple times and were about to shoot it when it starts pouring rain. And, I really mean pouring. The raindrops were huge and coming down so hard... There was tons of thunder and lighting... And for that reason we had to stop filming. We can't film in lightning, clearly, due to all the electrical equipment used. So I sat in the lobby of the school we were filming at for a few hours as we were "waiting it out." Turns out the rain would not stop, so we just wrapped without shooting the scene.

Now, my mom and I were supposed to leave today for LA, because we have a wedding to be at tomorrow morning at 11! Well, since we didn't shoot my scene yesterday, they needed me back on set today so we could film it. So, we changed our flight and hotel arrangements to accommodate that. When we got in today, I waited in my trailer for a few hours while they shot another scene. Well, finally, they called me up to set. I sat in the lobby with Nick (Nick Roux, who plays Scott), Blake, and Blake's mom for a while while the second team did a rehearsal. Then, they called first team on to set for our rehearsal. After we'd rehearsed a little bit, we started to shoot. As I have quickly found out, it takes quite a while to shoot things for film. You can be shooting a scene that will take up four minutes of the movie, but takes over six hours to shoot.

Turns out we ran out of time. Blake and I are both under 16, so they have to use our time wisely because we can legally only work for ten hours. When we were almost done with the scene (except for my shots - where the camera actually looks at me looking at Blake instead of looking at Blake looking at me.. if that made any sense), Blake had to leave because they hit his hours. There was one more shot they needed to get of Naomi (who plays Mo) and Nick, then they'd do mine. Well, as we all now know, one shot can take at least an hour to get. So by the time they were done with that shot, they'd run out of time for me (because the sun went down).

They now "owe me a shot," meaning they'll just do that one shot on some other day.

We also found out that they now need me on Monday. We're doing the "Halloween Bash" scene, and I was only called for Tuesday. So, we scheduled our flight back from California on Monday afternoon. Now, it seems that the Halloween Bash is going to take two days to film. And they now need me on Monday. So, once again, we re-arranged all of our travel information. Now we are getting up in a few hours (yeah, I need to get to bed) and flying there, then coming home Sunday evening so I can be on set Monday morning.

My song of the day has to be "Mine" by Miss Swift. Not only because it's kind of wonderful and brand new from my favorite artist, but it is literally the ONLY song I listened to ALL DAY on set. My mom thinks I'm crazy. But I wanted to learn it!

Just talking about someone who's afraid to fall in love, but ends up falling in love anyway and it's absolutely magnificent (well, that's what the whole song's about).


Sorry, I know it's kind of a short song/line of the day for such a long post. But I need to get some sleep.

Ah, the glamorous life of a movie star.

Not quite.

I'm not quite a movie star.

You all must think I'm crazy.

I sit through all that I do and I tell the story like it's so dramatic ('cause it kind of is), but really, I'm not complaining.

Not at all, actually.

I am so thrilled that I get to do this.

It's just the start...

I'm sitting through all of it and changing my plans and missing my family and dogs and best friend all for this.

And I don't even have lines yet. (;

What can I say?

I absolutely adore this business.

And this is not the last time I'll be doing it.

Not at all.

(here comes the line of the day!)

To my lovely new friends, my love for this business, and my life that's just getting started...

"You are the best thing that's ever been mine."