I went to help the feature film shooting for the first time from the end of November to the beginning of December.
It was 4 days shooting in San Jose, locates south of San Francisco. Director, actress and one more staff came from Japan and a cinematographer, his assitant and other staff came from Los Angeles. It was collaborate movie shooting between Japan and US.
However, there was a huge trouble on the first day and there came one more big trouble, which was solved for two days.
There was no problem on 3rd day but new trouble came on 4th day. The last one was that the car which was supposed to send Japan team to the airport got flat tire...
There is another trouble which has no relation with the shooting.
Regarding another film, the schedule management didn't go well. So I did international calls to a country in middle-east and Japan, so many times. I couldn't have a sense of jet-lag because I could slept only 8 hours for 5 days. Then I got a jet-lag because of this. It was so hard for me.
I'm a person who take actions foreseeing a couple of steps basically but I got confused this time because all the troubles went over my foreseeing.
However, we could do all the scheduled shooting and I could handle the trouble for middle-east in 5 days. Then I slept 16 hours the next day after the shooting.
I believe all the human should take a sleep for 3 or 4 hours at least.