Saturday, June 9, 2012

It Sucks When...


... you struggle to get a heavy light from one side of the set to the other, all while carefully fighting through a sea of actors, grips, camera people and unfortunately placed set dressing; send up said heavy light top stick on the stand, only for your Gaffer to tell you to "add a double" after it's set; all the grips are busy, so you struggle to carry a ten step ladder by yourself, again across the sea of actors, grips, camera people and unfortunately placed set dressing; and when you finally get up there, you burn yourself trying to shove that goddamned double in.

Once you're done, you radio to Gaffer to see how he likes his newly tweaked light that you just poured all your best effort and energy into and he says, "Eh... Yeah, it's okay."


Sigh....

3 comments :

Michael Taylor said...

I think you've just describe the essence of being a first-unit juicer...

A.J. said...

Michael - Actually, come to think of it, I think I just described the very essence of any job below the line...

JD said...

Auditioning the double....

Really....(says the Gaffer)? Are you sure you got a double in there?

Yeah,(said with sarcastic tone) I put in the red one. That's the double, right?

Gaffer: Never mind, pull it out.

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