Learning and Forgetting

Working on The Adventure Club has been a blast. You've heard about what it's like on set.  You've heard all about some of the other actors, and about how to prepare for scenes. But you've heard about all of this from a mother's perspective. It's me this time. The one you've been hearing about all along. It's Sam.

I am still yet to read the blog, but that won't stop me from writing in it. Don't worry, you'll still hear from the master blogger, my mom. But every now and then you might hear from me. I'm something like a guest writer.

Anyways, like I said, shooting this thing has been awesome. It's by far my favorite shoot. And one thing you haven't heard about is tutoring. Since I am still just a kid, I need to keep up my schoolwork here in Regina. So, a tutor is on set for me and the other kids. Her name is Kathy, and she's great. We need to have minimum 10 hours a week of tutoring. So we can just pop in and do 10 minutes of work every now and then, right? Nope. The rules say we need to be working at least 30 minutes to count our time, though we count anything more than 25 minutes as half and hour (Shhh!).

Because we can't do all of our tutoring during shooting, we have to "bank" hours. That means we do tutoring beforehand, so we don't have to do it later. I'm in a lot of the scenes, so I don't get as much tutoring as the others do. I've been a bit behind, but by the time I'm done writing this, I'll be caught up. We're in the suite right now. Back to tutoring.

The tutor has her own trailer, but shares the room next to her with some production room. While tutoring, we often get thrown around, because the trailer shakes whenever a guy gets on or off. Jakob is always looking for ways to skip school work. He'll stall as much as he can. He's been trying to convince production to let us count riding our bikes in the movie as physical education. No luck so far. I doubt he'll give up anytime soon.

And for some reason, I manage to lose my vest in the tutor trailer every single time I leave that place. I take it off when I get in because of the heat, and I'm so rushed to get back to set that i just hop out. Luckily, the second assistant director, Taylor, is always quick to remind me. I once left the trailer, crossed the street, and walked into the set, forgetting the whole time I'd left my vest back in the trailer. They needed me for blocking (figuring out where I would walk, stop, and walk again), so the poor wardrobe lady had to run back and get it for me!

My parents were in the movie! In a scene where my friends and I bike up to the science museum, they are walking down the sidewalk in the background. My dad took off his glasses and zipped up his coat so he could be another extra again if they needed him. The other parents got to walk out the front doors as we went in. Little did these two know, by volunteering for this job, they would have to do it over and over because we could still see them in the next shot. My parents, on the other hand, could happily sit and observe while enjoying a nice cup of coffee.

I have to go off to tutoring shortly, but I'll be writing more soon!