Clean Up
After you’ve been in the Industry long enough, it’s hard to watch good television without thinking about how hard it must’ve been to make. Take this week’s episode of Community. The scope of the show is usually fairly limited, with a couple of standing sets and some location shooting at Los Angeles City College. But […]
How to Drive in Los Angeles, Part 3: In 2D
Have you ever sat in the left turn lane, waiting for traffic to clear, wondering why sometimes you get a green turn arrow, and sometimes you don’t? Well, get ready to have your mind blown. The secret is to not look up at the light, but rather down at the street. Ever noticed those little […]
Ask Questions
As I’ve said before, I don’t do PA work for the money. I get paid, sure, but the pay is so ridiculously low that if that was my only reason, I’d quit and become a stock boy. The hours are better, and I’d actually have insurance. No, the reason to be a PA is to […]
How to Drive in Los Angeles 2: Drive Los Angeleser
I don’t know what it’s like in whatever third-world, former-communist, dictatorial kleptocracy you’re from, but here in California, you can turn right on a red light. This isn’t news, either; it’s been the law since before I was born. Los Angeles suffers more traffic delays than any other city in America (duh). Part of the […]
How to Drive in Los Angeles (First in a Series)
Here in Los Angeles, PAs drive. A lot. Unless you’re a teamster or a location manager, I can virtually guarantee I drive more than you do. So, driving in the City of Angels is the one area of expertise in which I can speak with some authority. Since I’m not going to have any set-related […]
Full Time Work in a Freelance Industry
I know, I know, it’s been a while since I’ve posted. Sorry. I do have an excuse, though. The show I’ve been on lo these many months has “stopped production.” A nice euphemism for “cancelled.” We’re done. Needless to say, I’ve been spending a lot of time looking for a new job. Considering the luck […]
How a Set Should Be
Taylor commented on an old post, yesterday: You are stupid sir. Locations arrives first and leaves last. Don’t repeat things you don’t understand He (she?) may or may not have realized that s/he was commenting on an auto-comment that’s generated every time one WordPress post links to another. That post read, Set PAs stay on […]
Four Seasons in One Day
When people back east are sitting at home on New Years Day, huddled around the fire and watching the Rose Parade, they think to themselves, Those people are wearing shorts. In January! I gotta move there. I know, because that’s what I thought. But what people don’t realize is, Los Angeles was built on a […]
No Lions
rather pathetic comments: great example here people. if you work long enough as a PA, you will hate life. please please please take this blog with a grain of salt. A few years ago, the Internet went down in my dorm. Everyone got super annoyed. What’s going on? Who are the morons running this place? […]
Voice Recognition
Do you know who this is?
Rarities
Regarding yesterday’s diatribe, I wanted to mention an AD I know who is an exception to the rule. He is one of the nicest guys that I’ve ever met. And not “nice” on the evil-troll-to-asperger-syndrome scale that most ADs are rated on. I mean, even compared to normal people, he’s really, really nice. Other than the […]
The Prevalence of Asshole ADs
Anonymous Base Camp PA writes… Well, actually, first let me explain what “base camp” is, for those who may not know. You ever see a usually-empty parking lot full with unlabeled white semi-trucks and trailers? That’s base camp. It’s where the physical production is based, specifically the AD trailer. Even if you’re shooting on stage […]