DAY 10
Thursday, August 20, 1998

Cascade View Elementary School, Snohomish, WA
9:10 AM
Sam C. Yawitz, Documentarian

THE LAST the end has been quite a experience for me. It has included five o'clock mornings, ten o'clock evenings, friends, rushing, waiting, laughing, loving, mocking, joking, sleeping, running, and of course working.

   I have risen at 5:15am.
   I have left for dreamland at 11:15.
   I have made and spent time with many friends.
   I have rushed from point A to point B.
   I have waited for hours on end.
   I have laughed at many, many jokes.
   I love everybody on the set.
   I have mocked friends who chose to make themselves prone.
   I have made many of the aforementioned jokes.
   I have slept ten hour nights. Thank God.
   I have ran between the aforementioned points A and B.
   and I have worked very hard.
It's been a wonderful expierence. I have learned many things, both about movies and teamwork.

It's interesting how many people I have met and become closer to through this movie. I knew Paul and Erika before as simply positions in the universe. And I knew nobody named Charles. But now I am very close to all those people. (Yes, there is an entity of the human kind named Charles.)

I hope that this movie continues to bring me many much-needed experiences.

-Sam

The Cascade View Gym, Snohomish, WA
10:00 AM
Sarah Blackfield, "Shoolie"

This has been such an adventure! This is my first time working on (in? for?) a film. I'm having a great time. I am just getting to know all of the crew, which is a great thing. Not getting quite enough sleep, not being able to have sugar, dairy, or caffeine, not knowing people I'm working with, hurry up and wait, those are among the bad things. Some of the good things: getting to stay up late, eating healthy food, meeting new people, being in a movie!

This is the life.

-Sarah

The Cascade View Gym
11:00 AM
Charles Baran, Make-up / Wardrobe

"MAKE UP!" Oh these children with their perfect skin, Occasionally I can be caught putting a little extra powder on them to justify my job on this film. I think I have finally taken care of the stinky shoes issue, I threw them in the schools boiler and bought a new set at Riteaid.

-Charles

The Cascade View Elementry School Gym
11:30 AM
Katherine Loveall, "Script Goddess" (Script Supervisor/Continuity)

Kids are a continuity nightmare! But I love everyone and the page count is going well; we're getting to our goal (slowly but surely). If only I could get those darned wood chips to stay in place.

-Katherine

The Cascade View Gym, Snohomish
11:41 AM
Grace Cornell, Documentarian

I can't believe that I have managed to not contribute anything to this online journal so far. It probably stems from the fact that anytime I sit down in front of this powerbook, my mind suddenly goes blank.

There are a thousand things that I could write about the unique and completely incredible experience of being part of the making of feature length movie. Early mornings, late nights, dailies, setting up the equipment, watching line running, interviewing people, laughing, cheering, waiting, playing cards, reading, watching, wading across rivers for a shot, climping down hills, driving to sets, late nights, sleeping in the basement of a christian school, the absoulute satisfaction that everyone feels when they get a shot right. Forty or so peple doing everything they can to make the dream of the THE LAST the end come true.

It's been an absoulutely magical adventure, and that is what we want our documentary to portray. Too many people think that documentaries are always boring and tiresome, and I, at least, want this one to be different. We want to catch the watchers attention, draw them in to the story of the making of THE LAST the end. It's a story of miracles, even though some of them may be small miracles. It's the story of how a dream was and is being brought to life. There is nothing I could ask for more than to be part of that dream.

‹Grace

Cascade View Elemantary School Gym
11:57 AM
Katrina Athmann, "Liza"

This is such an expierence for me!!! It's so interesting to see all of the work actually put into these movies. The first week it was really hot but this second week it is more cloudy. It's a nightmare to sit and wait in the hot sun. I wanted to go and jump in the river at evey break. Even though it's such a pain to sit and wait around for the next scene to get set up, it's still the best summer yet!!!!!

-Katrina :)

Cascade View Elementary, Snoho, WA
2:32 PM
Kate Weinberger, Documentarian

Lately, I've noticed that being a documentarian is not as easy as I thought it would be. One of the hardest things to decide is what and what not to tape. Sometimes, while sitting and playing cards with the cast and crew, I'll start telling myself that I really should be taping something. This happens because we documentarians have to show all aspects of the film making process, which includes taping the cast and crew when they're on break. Every time that I am resting while the cast and crew are shooting a scene, I feel guilty, like I should be taping them. The problem is, we've planned for the documentary to be no more than an hour long, so we can't tape everything. Yikes!

-Kate

CV Elementary
2:50 PM
Jesse P. Howard, Director

Some days are fast. Some days are slow. Today is going slow, children are restless, heat is on and up, and I am stressed out. It is these moments that I pray for something inspiring. Inspiring like the 650 days of dailies we are waiting to see...

-JPH

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