Worst experience

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I am not sure if this is the place to post this but I was just wondering what is the worst experience you have had on a shoot (ie the film didn't digitize, you didnt press record, the lighting was out of wack ect...)
 
Getting the talent, who has never done lines before, (the client insisted on using this girl for the ad), who shows up half baked on Adavan cause she was nervous.

She was so out of it she could not do 6 words at a time. I did not have a telepromt & was freaking due to the possibility of now having to pay for proper talent (which I did not bill into the job).

In the end, I taped a paper que to the mattebox lip and brought the camera in close. Did alot of cut to shots & used her as mostly voice over.

4.5 hours for a usually 1.5 hour job. (30 sec ad)


That was the worst.
 
Ha!
Shooting outdoors in Phoenix Arizona in August in 113 degree heat AND a rare dose of humidity thrown in as well!
The talent had to be wearing long coats and be quite physical. I even had to be overdressed due to our shooting terms.
Everyone got VERY grumpy VERY quickly. Every minute dragged by like an hour.

HOWEVER - the footage came out GREAT and you'd never guess it was shot in hot weather.
 
LMAO!! It was the craziest shoot of my life. My wife still talks about it. She got out of the car and saw all that scattered ass and just laughed at me and wouldn't help.
 
filthrich said:
LMAO!! It was the craziest shoot of my life. My wife still talks about it. She got out of the car and saw all that scattered ass and just laughed at me and wouldn't help.
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loL!

I don't feel as bad...

Last night I was shooting a documentary of this all female asian dance group at a night club and the tape didn't record...
 
Lets see...

- DP wore filp-flops to set.
- Real gun left unattended and played with by DP (no live ammo, but still...).
- Director hit up recovering addict Audio guy for coke.
- DP left ATW on during a heavily gelled scene.
- Dir. actually tried to move my camera during a handheld shot. He didn't ask me to change the shot, he grabbed me by the shoulders and tried to use me as a human tripod...without telling me.
- DP broke the lowell softbox (didn't know how to close it)
- we got snowed on.

- During one shoot in film school :
1) all the streets leading to our loc were under construction/blocked off
2) locked keys in car
3) locked batteries in car
4) Camera kept rejecting tapes and displaying errors (school rental)
5) locked both our phones in car
6) didn't have change for bus
7) walked several miles back to school
8) camera worked perfectly when we got to the rental area
9) walked to the other side of town to get her spare keys and bus money
10) we were both out of beer at our apartments
 
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filthrich said:
LMAO!! It was the craziest shoot of my life. My wife still talks about it. She got out of the car and saw all that scattered ass and just laughed at me and wouldn't help.
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LOL. OMG! That would've made millions back in the day when they had "The Boxx" before MTV2 took it over. That's how people like Trick Daddy and Yin Yang Twins got big. There were definitely some questionable "talent" on there that made it big. Seriously you got the check list:

Rapper(s) Check
Cars Check
Weed (or implication thereof) Check
And booty Check

That seems to be the million dollar formula.

My Experience was on the last day of shooting my first my cast tried to team up and urge me to make the movie into a comedy. LOL. Even though the movie wasn't a great action thriller it would've been an absolutely horrid comedy. I had to actually snap on them, which was just great as I had already become known as being an @$$hole director based on perception alone. Basically an actress starting crying on set. (The role was stressful I admit). I knew nothing about this until clean up, but as the story now goes "I made her cry" and I'm very hard on my actors.

-Nate
 
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On the first film I ever worked on, the director hit one of the child actors with a car. He supposedly didn't know how to drive an automatic car because his car is a manual, so he reversed into an 8-year-old.
 
Not a film set. But I used to shoot professional paintball tournaments when I wasn't playing in them. I was a photographer too for a magazine - but I liked the video aspect of it more. Anyways, I was set up on the sideline, kneeling down to get a better shot. And I had a player slide into me, his foot impacted my head knocking me out.

Sad part is no one noticed. Didn't think I was actually knocked out until I reviewed the tapes later and several seconds went by with the camera laying on the ground with me next to it.
 
5 am after 12 hour shoot last scene. Someone kicks coffee cup thinking it was empty sprays my HVX and I with Hot coffee I jump back hit my head on a 2k knocked it off a C stand and caught it after it had been on for 3 hours straight with bare hands... beat that.
 
lairhair said:
5 am after 12 hour shoot last scene. Someone kicks coffee cup thinking it was empty sprays my HVX and I with Hot coffee I jump back hit my head on a 2k knocked it off a C stand and caught it after it had been on for 3 hours straight with bare hands... beat that.
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ow, ow, ow and how far to the emergency room?
 
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