Archive for November, 2005
The thing about the winter’s first night shoot is I always underestimate how cold it’s going to be – I’ve gotten used to summer, when a long sleeved T-shirt is enough. I bring a few warm things and think I’ll be okay, but I usually have at least one body part that feels like it’s [...]
Now that I’ve recovered from the food coma, I have to get on a night schedule (we’re shooting nights all week next week), so tonight and tommorow night I have to find an excuse to stay up late (I’m normally a morning person, so this is a big deal) .
I think I’m going to go [...]
Today, we were shooting in an office building (in scenic Torrance) – and of course had to haul pretty much entire truck up to the second floor (at least they had a good elevator – I’ve gotten stuck before. I’ve also had to run lights up one at a time because the elevator wasn’t big [...]
Monday morning I ordered my standard breakfast off the catering truck – an egg white and spinach omelet with a side of turkey bacon.
Three hours later, I was slightly nauseous and by lunch I was really nauseous, had stomach cramps, and was apparently pretty green around the gills. Despite my protestations that I could tough [...]
I put hot sauce on just about everything I eat – eggs, meat, cottage cheese (don’t knock it – nonfat cottage cheese, canned mandarin orange slices, walnuts and hot sauce is damn tasty. I just have to remember to take the Lactaid), quiche, BLT’s, rice, beans, pasta, toast, that cheap caviar from Trader Joe’s, salad, [...]
There’s a lot more involved in loading a truck than one might think. Everything has to be tested (to make sure the lamps burn, the bolts in the stands are tight and the cable’s good), marked (if you’re carrying a rigging crew, everyone picks a different color tape to mark their equipment with – since [...]
“Turnaround” is the time between when wrap is called at night and call time the next morning. Generally, it’s between 10 and 12 hours (anything over 12 hours is cause for celebration), but that only applies if you stay on the same show everyday. If you move from one show to another, all bets are [...]
For the last week, we’ve had a good-natured argument with the Teamsters over our truck being too far away from set (our truck’s actually been very close to set – right behind camera).
This is actually a big deal – having the truck close means being able to get stuff into set quicker, and means less [...]
We’ve been in the same location for five days now, which has been nice, but tonight was the night we had to wrap out. Since we’re not carrying a rigging crew, that means after they called wrap, we worked for two hours after everyone else went home. We had to load our truck, and pull [...]
I ache. On Sunday night, I still ache.
I must have walked 15 miles Friday (night exterior – lighting up an entire suburban block with only four of us. Between call and wrap, I sat down for a grand total of an hour – and that’s including lunch), and when I got up Saturday morning, I [...]
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