This past weekend was suppose to be the start of our filming. Dispite the snow threatening every week to halt production, one look at the weather channel eased my worries. Little did I know that the weather would be the least of my worries. It was saturday, it was 44 minutes after my actors were supopose to be at my house, and I had two actors waiting, and a third missing. No call, no show. Besides that, my Director of Photography decided to confront me outside my office, and subsequently walkout. So there I was, with an hour before being at my second location, and I didn't have an actor, I had no crew, because my DP dropped the ball, and I had nobody to DP. Not wanting to faulter, I pushed forward, and told my actors who did show up the truth. I knew it would be difficult to film my scenes without an actor who was needed, but not having a crew to help you, almost crippled me. As much as I tried to stay professional, and keep my production value high, due to me doing everything, the final product failed, and was not the type of product that I wanted to put out there. As much as the evening's shoot did much to increase my belief that we could forge ahead as is, I knew deep down that it wasn't going to work. I was so frustrated, that a trip to ShadowRoom to chat with my mentor David was in order. Day two, our call time was 8am at Sara J's. 7am, I receive a text from Andrea, "I'm sorry to burden your day, but there's no way I can make the shoot. Woke up sick again and I need to get more rest. I'm burning out.". My innitial reaction was a reply text, "And you need to be on set. Professionally This is unacceptable as an actor. I understand you're tired. But u just fucked up my schedule, and now at least 20 people have to be rescheduled. People have taked off from work to do this." And then came this, "Its not me being tired. I am sick and I don't need to be running myself so thin like this. I'm sorry, there's no way I can perform.". For anyone whose ever been on the receiving end of a text like this you'd probably have the same reaction as I did. After dealing with a missing actor all day yesterday, I knew that I couldn't do it again, so I had no choice to cancel the shoot. It wouldn't have been bad, except Stephanie from the Record Journal was suppose to stop by. As much as I wanted to get scenes filmed and the show on the road, actors, and my crew put a damper on my schedule. Because I swore to myself that I wouldn't fall into the same traps as other independent films I've seen recently, I did the hardest thing a director could do, I cancelled all future shoots on this project, until I can get a full crew.