Indie drama in Atlanta — $250/day, 5 days, script changed every hour

This was a mess. $250/day, 5-day indie drama in Atlanta. On paper it looked fine — decent script, experienced DP, reasonable schedule. Reality: the director rewrote scenes ON SET. Not minor tweaks. Full page rewrites. New dialogue. New blocking. Sometimes while we were in the middle of shooting the previous version. By day 3 I had no idea what my character's motivation was because it had changed four times. The other actors were equally lost. The DP was visibly frustrated. On day 4 the director decided to cut an entire subplot which meant 3 of my scenes were gone. I still got paid for all 5 days (contractually locked in) but the footage I got was basically useless — fragmented scenes from a story that doesn't make sense. Some directors rewrite as they go and it works. This was not that. This was someone who didn't finish the script before calling "action."