04-10-2006, 07:05 PM
I worked stupid hours last week. Fourteen and sixteen hour days. But I only did four of them. I felt like someone hit me with a board upside my head. I entered the fugue where time was only a concept that I had once hear of.
But I got to skip the Friday though Saturday shift. The production company was going to be shooting on Stage 6 all night and wouldn't get to my stage, Stage 2 until Saturday morning. My boss took pity on me and said I wouldn't have to go in. I hadn't done a thing all week on stage, why waste another day.
They did return. They shot their final shot. The final shot of the movie. Hooray. Let's celebrate. When I came to the stage on Monday, there were wine glasses and empty champagne bottles. Vive Cliquot, no less (I'm sure I've spelled that wrong.)
Now after working sixteen hours for the day, possilbly 72 hours for the week in just five days, don't you think the crew would be a little tired? Maybe it was a hair irresponsible to give them liquor before they drove home?
I'm just asking.
Producers are supposed to supply hotel rooms to the crew if they work them sixteen hour shifts. I know of two deaths in the industry that happened because people fell asleep at the wheel after long shifts, hence the edict to give out hotel rooms. But they didn't offer rooms, they offered liquor. Long Live Hollywood
But I got to skip the Friday though Saturday shift. The production company was going to be shooting on Stage 6 all night and wouldn't get to my stage, Stage 2 until Saturday morning. My boss took pity on me and said I wouldn't have to go in. I hadn't done a thing all week on stage, why waste another day.
They did return. They shot their final shot. The final shot of the movie. Hooray. Let's celebrate. When I came to the stage on Monday, there were wine glasses and empty champagne bottles. Vive Cliquot, no less (I'm sure I've spelled that wrong.)
Now after working sixteen hours for the day, possilbly 72 hours for the week in just five days, don't you think the crew would be a little tired? Maybe it was a hair irresponsible to give them liquor before they drove home?
I'm just asking.
Producers are supposed to supply hotel rooms to the crew if they work them sixteen hour shifts. I know of two deaths in the industry that happened because people fell asleep at the wheel after long shifts, hence the edict to give out hotel rooms. But they didn't offer rooms, they offered liquor. Long Live Hollywood
So much for the flickr badge idea. Dammit