Archive for March, 2006
In Southern California’s summer, day exteriors are a leisurely thing.
The sun rises at 5 am, and it’s not fully dark until almost 9 pm.
This time of year, however, when it’s fully dark by 6:30 pm, day exteriors are a rush – we have to get done before we run out of light.
When the daylight runs [...]
Once again today, we were shooting in a small set with only one entrance.
Generally, everyone tries to keep out of the doorway, because no one wants to obstruct someone else from getting in. It’s a very complicated dance, but we manage to do it and make it look easy somehow.
Except…
The one guy (I think he [...]
Saturday and today I was working on an insert shoot for the last movie. Inserts are those really really close up shots – a pack of cigarettes, the face of an alarm clock, a hand reaching for something, a newspaper headline.
They’re usually not shot at the same time as the main movie, and they [...]
It all started last week – I got that sciatica pain (right at the top of the butt) that normally goes away if I can just get everything to adjust. Normally, all I have to do is swing my hips around and it goes away, but not this time. This time, as the pain continued [...]
My brain is fried.
Monday – call time: 6 am, wrap time: 8 pm
Tuesday – call time: 5:42 am, wrap time: 8:30pm
Wednesday – call time: 6:30 am, wrap time: 10:30 pm
I had today off, and I spent the entire day doing laundry. I’m back to work tomorrow, then I’m doing reshoots for the last movie [...]
Today’s wrap time was 8 pm, and tomorrow’s call time is 6 am.
Not only do we have a 6 am call, but we have a night exterior scheduled.
Gonna be a long day.
I’m off to bed.
The first question that anyone working on location asks is “Where’s the nearest coffee place?”
It’s usually a Starbucks, although some of us prefer Peets or the Coffee Bean.
The other night I volunteered to go fetch our boss a latte, since the latte dispenser on the craft service truck was broken, and he was dragging and [...]
For the next two days, we’re working splits.
A split is a workday that’s half daytime/half nighttime – some people hate them, but I don’t mind them at all – today’s 11 am call (noon crew call, but we’ve got an hour pre-call) means I’ll miss the traffic both ways, and still get home [...]
First shooting days are usually for ironing out glitches, but today went really smoothly – we were shooting in an abandoned hospital near Pasadena (yesterday makes the third time in a calendar year that I’ve shot there) which happens to have pretty easy access in and out. It’s also helping that they’ve got a nice [...]
For some inexplicable reason, Universal Studios Theme Park has a viewing station with those telescopes that cost a quarter aimed right at the lamp dock.
Why anyone would find the lamp dock worthy of three minutes and a quarter is beyond me.
Since we spent most of the day waiting on sub-rentals*, all we were doing [...]
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