The Anonymous Production Assistant

Lunch “Break”

I’m a people pleaser, which is why ordering lunch is very stressful for me. On most shows, the office will eat off the catering truck, like the rest of the crew. But that only works if the company is on stage, and shooting daylight hours. If the crew is shooting a split day, you can’t […]

Overheard in the Catering Line II

Or is it III, since I double posted the last one? Anyway. I was standing behind a couple of PAs from another department.  Post, maybe?  In any case, I overheard the following conversation, as they were perusing the food options– “What should we get for him?”  (Their department head, I assume.) “I dunno.  He said […]

Overheard in the Catering Line

Gaffer: “The guys are complaining that they’re only getting ten hours, but when we’re working fourteen, sixteen hours, they’ll coplain then, too.” Best Boy: “Don’t worry about the crew… until they stop complaining.” This was accompanied by a meaningful look, to which the Gaffer nodded slyly. I’m not certain, but I may have just witnessed […]

Good Mornin’

You work strange hours when you’re making a TV show (or a movie, for that matter). You’ll come in at 7:00 one day and 10:30 the next. Sometimes you’re there for twelve hours, sometimes sixteen. You just never know. One artifact of this, I believe, is that “morning” is whenever call time is, be it […]