Headlights, Camera, Action!

amateurs. Scenes that normally would have taken an hour, took three hours. So we were already pressed for time when on the third night, one guy trips over a light cable, sending it crashing to the ground. I was seeing red. This was my first big film and it was going to fail because some inbreed local couldn’t pick up his feet. I let my anger get the best of me and I let him have it, which I felt bad about after. I could tell he felt horrible. He offered to drive his truck into the woods so we could use his headlights. If you have ever tried making a film, you know the importance of improvisation. So he ran to his truck, drove into the woods, and blasted us with his headlights. Wow. Angels are singing. His headlights created an amazing effect that our lights didn’t even come close to imitating. The guy made up for his mistake, which turned out to be better than