RAINDANCE
OK team, to get to the canteen first we need to go through the costume department, up to the top of the studio, abseil down the side and then a quick leap across the canal. You fall, you get left behind – no namby-pamby bullshit here.
If you’ve never been on a film set, you might be surprised to learn that it’s mostly a very boring experience. Sure, the occasional shot requires a great deal of exciting machinery and on-set wizardry that is a joy to behold and take part in, but a lot of time spent shooting a movie is time spent twiddling your thumbs, waiting for other people to finish whatever it is they’re doing. It’s been a long-established military adage that war is ‘long periods of boredom punctured with short periods of terror’, and filmmaking can be described in very similar terms. Here’s what everyone gets up to in their ‘long periods of boredom’:
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9) Fall in love with the actors
Ah, those beautiful, tall, charismatic people that make the fairest of crew members look like semi-human demics. Their perfect smiles, charming manner, statuesque bodies… Like civilised elves visiting a world of orcs.
Look at these pretty, careless, happy assholes
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