01 Death's Daughter by Amber Benson

Author:Amber Benson [Benson, Amber]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Fantasy fiction, Contemporary, Fiction, Fantasy, General, Death, Fathers and daughters
ISBN: 9780441016945
Publisher: Ace Books
Published: 2009-02-24T07:00:00+00:00

seventeen

I had never seen a movie being filmed before. I would love to say that it was a superexciting experience, and that tons of cool stuff happened. That it, like, totally changed my life completely and made me want to be a better person.

Not.

Hands down, I have to rate seeing a movie being made as the number-one most boring thing I have ever witnessed in my entire existence. Really, it’s on par with watching paint dry, or timing a slug to see how long it takes the slimy little sucker to get across your sidewalk.

I guess it just took more than pretty clothes, bright lights, and a big camera in my face to impress me. I decided that I was probably one of those folks who enjoyed watching their TV, not participating in it.

On the other hand, Clio was in geek-girl heaven. Indra let her stand right by him while he guided the camera up and down the long metal dolly track he had magically laid down on the floor. He even let her look through the viewfinder twice—which totally put her over the moon. Even Runt seemed to be enjoying the experience, while it was all I could do not to fall asleep against the wall where I was sitting.

Seriously, they just kept repeating the same stuff over and over again—even though, from what I could tell, each take looked exactly like the take before it. For the life of me, I couldn’t tell you what Indra was accomplishing by making Kali walk down a set of stairs twenty times in a row while the Gopi did their crazy whirling dervish number on the platform below her—unless this was all a carefully planned ruse to make Kali so annoyed she’d go all Carrie-insane on us, which was always a possibility anyway with Kali’s volatile personality. I’m sure she would’ve just loved an excuse to put on her destructive face and set a few of the Gopi on fire for fun.

The only thing I found even remotely interesting—and the word “interesting” was a stretch—was the way Indra used magic to move the lights and the props around the set. Mostly, I was curious about the magic part, but I could see how lighting really was kind of an art form.

For example, there was this one part where Kali was leaning against the stair rail, her long, dark hair like a glorious storm cloud around her face, and Indra got this big light to swoop in real close to her face, giving her features this gorgeous, creamy, sunlit glow. That was kinda neat—until he did it seven more times, at which point I stopped paying attention.

Since Indra was the only crew person involved—aside from the now-conscious Gopi, whom he’d had to beg Kali to unspell, which she did begrudgingly—it had taken him only a few minutes to magically get everything set up and running again. Without magic, I got the distinct impression that the crew on a film set would be considerably larger than one person.

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