Don't come back all dirty and gross.
Continuity is something that you hear a lot about on a film set. Actors have to repeat the same motions and dialogue ad naseum so that they can be captured from different angles and focal lengths. To shoot one minute of finished film can easily take all day.
The way the "Around The World" project is currently structured, each 30 minute episode takes place over the course of a single day. What this means is that I'm in the same costume everyday that we're shooting a given episode. We've been shooting in Cambodia for about two weeks now.
In a major film or television show this isn't an issue. Sets are air-conditioned, every costume piece is purchased or constructed in triplicate and is regularly washed (Harrison Ford had over 20 identical hats for the latest Indiana Jones) . We're shooting outdoors in 90 degrees with 90 percent humidity - as well as hiking to all of our locations. To say that we sweat is something of an understatement. Unfortunately to get clothing laundered takes a couple days, which is to say: I've been wearing the exact shirt and pants for ~12 days - unwashed.
I shower twice daily, douse myself in baby powder, and run headlong for my clean change of clothes after the shooting days end. However, none of this has prevented me from developing a splotchy red heat rash on my back. Eeew. Eeew. Eeeeeew. Hydrocortozone cream is a Godsend .
Hmmm, it looks like my blog's readership just dropped to -4.
That being said, I am having the time of my life shooting this thing.
1 comment:
Great. You are now as dirty and gross as Gabriel is.
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