2013

[BanzaiCat]

^ +1

And believe me, film WILL go over. I've never worked with a director that's actually been on time on anything.

[GDS_Starfury]

Ive never had an 8 hour day when I was doing set design.  commercial shoots mostly went smooth.  tv or film....  BWAHAHAHAHA!  cha CHING for the day and craft services feeding you.  back then I had to actually work because of the field I was in.  electricians pretty much set up and break down and their done for the day once the rigging is set.  moving lights around is the DP's problem that gets pushed onto his minions.

[BanzaiCat]

I've not had a good experience with commercial shoots. They're usually on time and have their crap together, but they tell talent their call time is 7 or 8 a.m. and then don't call them to the set until later in the afternoon. At least there's free food. And it's pretty easy to get paid while sitting and reading a book or shooting the schiesse with the other actors.

[GDS_Starfury]

IIRC based on a $35 union hour

1-8 hours was either hourly or your day rate $280
8 - 10 time and a half                                  $105
10 - 12 double time                                     $140
12 - 14 triple time                                       $210
14 on your quadruple golden time @ 2 hrs     $280

$1015 for a long 16 hour day.  thats based of basic union wages and a huge reason why modern movies and tv cost a fortune.  say you have a 100 man crew working in Chicago shooting a Transformers movie, between crew, cast, permits and all the rest your blowing over half a million dollars a day easy.  probably more like a million +.           

a rally good friend, after 15+ years in, does best boy electric and his starting pay is $70.

[BanzaiCat]

Crew make a hell of a lot more money than I ever have, then.  ;)

[GDS_Starfury]

while Florida is a right to work state the amount of production work here has kind of forced it to base pay on California union wages.  this was due to number of California based crew that would have to come here for work with the remainder being local.  equal wage and all that.  its really cause a huge number of problems.

[Silent Disapproval Robot]

Well, 2014 is off to a shitty start.  Suffered an attempted mugging on the way home from the pub tonight.  Fortunately they didn't get anything and all I suffered was a ruined jacket and a few stitches. 

I have to wonder just how bad the Canuck economy really is as I've never had to deal with this kind of situation since i and young and stupid in college.  The weird thing was, before I left my place to go to the pub, I had the urge to grab my canister of pepper spray.  I looked around for it but couldn't find it so I left without it.  Could definitely have used it tonight against a gang of Sikh thugs.  Got to listen to the gut more often, I reckon.

[undercovergeek]

Jesus..... hope you're ok sdr!

[bob48]

^As Geek said - it must have been a scary experience, but as long as you are safe and well.

[bayonetbrant]

Well, 2014 is off to a shitty start.  Suffered an attempted mugging on the way home from the pub tonight.  Fortunately they didn't get anything and all I suffered was a ruined jacket and a few stitches. 

FWIW, I"d find the nearest police station, and vocally disapprove

[LongBlade]

Well, 2014 is off to a shitty start.  Suffered an attempted mugging on the way home from the pub tonight.  Fortunately they didn't get anything and all I suffered was a ruined jacket and a few stitches. 

FWIW, I"d find the nearest police station, and vocally disapprove

+1 to all of the above.

Glad you're OK. Sorry to hear of the experience. Hopefully you left the idiot muggers with a couple of stitches, too.

[endfire79]

Did they have any street cameras there? If so you can ask the police to review it and report it. What part of bc are you in btw??

[Gusington]

You got stitches SDR? What'd they do to you?

And this is the first time I've read the phrase 'Gang of Sikh thugs'...I always think of 'peaceloving' when I think of Sikhs.

[Silent Disapproval Robot]

I'm good. Just some bumps and a cut on my leg from the corner of a brick wall. My buddy dropped me off at my house after we left the pub but I decided to walk up to the corner store to get something non alcoholic to drink.  Couple punks jumped me and slammed me into said wall but then took off almost immediately when a couple stopped their car and caught them in the lights.  Nothing overly dramatic, just annoyed that it happened and thankful they didn't use any weapons.

[GDS_Starfury]

glad to hear your ok.