I make a living editing professional sports.  As you can imagine, sports happen at night and so I work late on a regular basis.

My average bed time is normally between 1 and 2 am.

For someone like me, it isn’t easy to suddenly turn things around and wake up at 6 in the morning!

Both mornings of our shoot on The Climb were horrible.  Each time my alarm went off I was angry at the world.  But I can’t complain because our cast and crew probably hated the early wake up calls just as much.

Some people actually had to get up earlier than I did!

But that doesn’t add the hours to my alarm clock does it?

On any film shoot there are call sheets.  Emails that contain every single detail about the next day.  On each call sheet, you’ll find:

• Crew Call Time
• Special Call Times (In our case Alyssa had a special makeup call)
• The scenes you will be shooting including addresses
• The Weather (I hated the weather.)
• Sunrise & Sunset
• Important Phone Numbers
• Extras Needed
• Details on the following day’s shoot

There really is a lot vital information on a well organized call sheet.

In our case, Producer Eric took care of the call sheets and did an amazing job considering the schedule changed hourly due to weather concerns.

Somehow we stayed on schedule and got everything done.

I love sleeping in.

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