ABC Newsroom

I really wanted to sit in the chair and and say "This is Peter Jennings, with an ABC News exclusive on the afterlife".

Damn. This is going to turn out to be one big deathbed regret.

A Zombie Says What?

I know for a fact that 5 1/2 script pages can be shot in 12 hours without hurrying.

Today, it took us 15 hours (making yesterday our third 14+ hour day in a row) to shoot that 5 1/2 pages.

The director of this episode has been pulling a Warren Beatty*, which hasn't been making him any friends - with crews, at some point the money ceases to matter and we just want to go home.

Long days are wearing.. After three of them in a row, the entire crew was punch drunk - bad third grade jokes set off 15 minute long laughing fits, and everyone had that glazed look. I kept remembering that line from Fight Club... "A copy of a copy of a copy".. Conversations seemed tinny and far away, reaction times multiplied as our worn out brains took longer and longer to process information ("Look out, that light's going to fall!" "What?" :crash: "Oh. The light. Whoops.").

A very, very lucky few either found the coveted nap spots in the set or managed to sleep sitting up.




*On Dick Tracy, Warren Beatty was ordered by Disney to do fewer takes (he was doing over 30 takes on every shot) - so what he'd do was this: He'd call take one, then have the actors do the scene over and over and over until the camera's film ran out. That way, he'd get the shot done 30+ times, but would technically only have done 8 takes.

I'm too tired to post. Here's a photo.

16+ hour day(call time: 8:30 am, wrap time: 12:30 am, and that's before we had to load the truck), and I have to be back tommorow morning at 10 am.

I can't think well enough to compose a blog entry.

Back at the VA

Grey's was back shooting at the V.A. in Northridge today- we were outside for the first half of the day - which was unfortunate as, by lunchtime, the temperature was about 105 F (40.5 C).

There was an indie movie shooting right next to us (the VA rents out their unused buildings to movies, and today there were three separate productions shooting there), and they were doing motorcycle stunts today - tres cool.

We'd get our lights set up, and then run over to the other set and watch the stunts - they had built a long wooden ramp, and were racing down it and doing flips off the end.

At some time during the day I got a burn on one of my fingers - it's about the size of a pencil eraser, it's blistered up and I have no idea how or when I got it.

It kind of scares me that I got a second degree burn and didn't even feel it.