Lack of Sleep

Citizens,

Robin here once again. With Batman and I undergoing finals, we don't have very much time to sleep. This brough to mind a post you might enjoy: sleeping hours while filming a movie. As I have already said numerous times, filming is one of the hardest hobbies you can have. It's emotionally draining as well as physically draining.

Most shoots last for about four hours. All that time you are on your feet, running around, trying to do things as fast and as well as you can do them so everyone can leave on time. It's great! But, it's worse than running a race. Also, most shoots were done either late at night or early mornings on the weekends to accomodate the work schedule of both Joey and I. End result? You pull and 8 hour day at work and then pull 4 more on your own time. That's 12 hours or work for a day. Starting to feel the drain?

I know I sure did. Last summer, when I did my cross country time trial I ran the slowest I had ever run. I had done more training than ever but for the past few nights, I had filmed with Joey until 1am or 2 am and then gotten up at 7:00 am to go to work. Simply put, filming and sleeping do not go well together. Joey and I actually filmed the bat-cave scenes from about 11 pm - 3 am one night because that was the only time we could work out. Making a film takes stamina. I guess that's why I'm a super hero.

THWAK!

Robin