My favorite set moment wasn’t even a set I was working on. I lived down the alley from this bar Cassidy’s and they were filming there after hours, so middle of the f-ing night. It was a scene were this guy gets thrown out of the bar. But the actor with the final line kept forgetting his lines. I could hear the crew getting more and more irritated. The sun was gonna be up soon. I couldn’t sleep through the bullshit. At a certain point I’m just up watching from my window what felt like the 50th take. They go through the whole action series again. End of the scene actor has one line and again silence from the actor. Another ruined take. So I screamed the line from my window. The crew cheered.
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My best EVER set moment was again from the same class as the story mentioned above.
Except this project. Ok
So the class was called 336
And we had to get into groups and the rules were you only had 1 day to shoot a film as complete as you could. (after the project was over you could do reshoots and finish or) you only had 12 hours, you had 5 with actors and you had to do everything legit. Permits. All that. The other caveat was in these groups it was connective I direct one, and you produce, someone DPs, someone does sound, yada yada
Next week I produce, you direct, so on so on. Every week no break until we all did all the jobs.
The class was designed to break you down and stress you out and see if you had the chops to be on sets🤷🏽
ANYWAY after all of them were over, the one I produced for had a fake knife suicide scene and we needed fake blood. So I found a art dept guy that made fake blood with lube. So me being the producer I found I could get a bucket of lube pretty cheap from India if I bought in bulk🤷🏽 because we needed like 2-3 gallons or something. A number that sounded like a lot at the time, but now doesn't sound so big.
Anyway I ended up getting like 16 buckets of lube and we only used like 2 and a half.
So we had all this lube left and I didn't live in the dorm but everyone else did pretty much. So I've day we were bored and we decided to lube up the hallway and make a slip n slide.
Ridiculously fun. Ridiculously slippery and dangerous.
A RN found us and I thought we were going to be in do much trouble. But he ripped his shirt off and made it farther than any of us.
That’s amazing 😂🤣😂🤣😂