Down Time

You guys sure are getting a lot of posts about my time working on Snowmen. Since being done with it, I now have the time and energy to finally write about it! Plus, it's easier to reminisce and feel good about the experience when I'm not in the thick of it, getting up at five in the morning, standing all day, watching kids, and being cold.

Working on a movie set comes with a lot of downtime. We're there for at least twelve hours--we can't possibly have enough things to do to fill all that time with work. As a PA, it's frowned upon if you sit down, but there are many times when you're just standing there with nothing to do. The trick, and fun, is to find ways to make yourself look like you're busy and doing something; carry around some extra prelims or call sheets, always have batteries somewhere on your body, move around from one place to another, and always say Copy and Looking when talked to on the radio. Everyone had different ways of keeping themselves busy so as to not go completely insane with boredom...






Don't let these pictures fool you though; we all worked awfully hard, sometimes in extreme cold and other times in extreme heat. And in between all that downtime we found the time to make a movie!