Over the last few days Stu and I learned a little more about Tembisa. Apparently the township is broken up into sections. The area where the arts center is located is called Oakmoor, Extension 7. That is where we first began shooting. These last few days we’ve been spending time with Portia, who lives in Ivory Park. Ivory Park was little more rough around the edges and night life definitely seemed to be more intense. Our days have been ending early so we haven’t been able to actually experience shooting at night. Hopefully we will get to do that before we leave.

In all I have to say we are having an incredible time so far and the content we have filmed so far is pretty amazing. I personally am having a blast shooting and I know Stu is enjoying carrying all my stuff for me.

This afternoon we actually had to leave the township early due to a bad storm that was heading in fast and kicking up a load of dirt. I stayed as long as I could to shoot the incoming storm before the dust became too much to deal with. Right now we are back in Jo-burg watching the thunderstorm roll through. Apparently when it does storm here it’s pretty intense. The lightening has been pretty neat. So I’m gonna go make Stu stand on the roof with a metal rod to reign some in for some epic 5D footage.