When I'm With You

Chapter 57

Do they know the purpose of my coming here?

How do they know?

Chris, don't you feel overly excited today? I asked myself.

Yes, I am.

Today is a great day for me. The shooting of my debut film will start this evening. When the sun goes down, a new beginning will dawn in my life.

"Wanna go to school?" Mr. Gilbert came up to me interrupting my thoughts.
I turned and smiled at him. "I wish I could. But this time with a different story."

He handed me a small packet and said, "Here is your new SIM card. Use your previous mobile number for your personal purposes and this new number for professional purposes."
"Thanks." I bought the packet from him thanking him.

"Don't share this with those close to you." He said.

"Okay."

"So, are you up for it?" he asked excitedly.

"Preparing for it." I said what was going on inside me.

"I know you're going to nail it." He said with complete confidence, more than I had on myself.

"I will do my best." I assured him.

••••

Everything was ready for the shooting before six o'clock. Mr. Gilbert explained the scene to me from the caravan. One of the hardest things about this scene is that there is no dialogue. Acting without dialogue is very difficult.

The make-up man did the final touch up and I went to the small workshop. They have installed some machines and equipment and I have to act like working on it.

A few minutes later, Mr. Gilbert sat down in his chair. I turned away and started doing something with the objects.

"Camera rolling, action." he commanded.
I took the spanner and tightened the bolts of something. The camera moved from behind me and slowly settled to my left. I focused on the objects until he gave the commands.

"Eyes up."

I only raised my eyes and looked ahead. I didn't move an inch for the next three seconds.

"Cut." He said.

I relaxed with a sigh and looked at him curiously.
I went to him and saw the shot scene.
"The eyes are not clear." I looked at the scene and said.

"Do it one more time." He said. "Put the lights in the corner and the shot is not clear."

We shot the scene once again with some changes in the lighting position. I went to the camera and saw the new shot.

Now that my face is clear, the most important thing in this scene is my eyes, my ocean blue eyes are clearly captured.

"PERFECT." exclaimed Mr. Gilbert, jumping up from his chair startling me.

Next moment I heard loud applause, talks and long sigh of reliefs.

••••

Rishma's POV :

I started correcting the typos in my assignment. Writing quickly with my lucky pencil with black lines in yellow.

I finished ten pages of my assignment and only wrote the word Assignment!

What happened to me?

I wasted ten pages just to write the word assignment?

I stared at the pages in shock.

Crack..