Hi I'm Joshua Lou Friedman. I'm the first ad on the set. Joshua Lou Friedman on set) "All right guys
wardrobe is clear. Make up is clear."
"Quiet please. Lock it up." all right all right
pictures up do you say okay tell me where I can go yeah
pictures up lock it up what's roll sound roll camera
Seanie 71 take 3 mark great and coming with your sec ok it was an 8 o'clock
call I got here around 7:30 sometimes if it's in you location I'll get there an
hour earlier but its location I'd already been living in I'll be here at
like 7:30 as an example it was a typical hours spent on set 12-hour days I'm not
counting lunch but then you know with the before the travel time I before I
live like an hour away so that's kind of sucks typically it's a 12-hour day but
then with lunch at 13 hour day sometimes fortune our day so it depends if we go
over when we get here I try to get all the actors you know at first they do a
blocking rehearsal for the director of photography and our director and all the
department heads to see so we know what we're lighting and what we're shooting
and we work out as many bugs as we can and I put the actors through the works
makeup and hair wardrobe while we're lighting the set and then when they come
when they're ready the set is hopefully ready by then and we do a camera
rehearsal and then we shoot and we knock out all the scenes on the day as
scheduled in prep it's the most useful job on set as it is because all the
department heads are kind of bottleneck in pyramid so on and when we go over
then I have to make or what bit something's taking too long I have to
get the director to hopefully make concessions on how many shots he
actually you know it was my job to adapt to the director to make sure that he
gets what he wants sometimes I'll make sure he gets what he needs rather than
what he wants instead depends on if we are running behind or not and usually I
can make that work we're going to the flip
bitch fair line when they're walking away where he's like move your ass and
pushes him into the room for that wait up that cable will go from them to these
guys okay during that whole exchange then we're
going to get a shot of them here well is walk you through I'm going to get an
insert shot that has to match for a transition of Kevin's arm going onto
this door and then after that I'm just gonna let it be fuzzy fad special parts
hammer out okay where you one of those that drives on the strings yeah I I get
that yes that that is true um it's starting to take its toll I'm
not gonna lie to you I'm an old man but old old man
I have Zack Ward on set immediately please I'm always the guy like every
time I have jobs book they never seem to be a couple days after I rap or a week
after I rap it's always oh you're done shooting on the 16th perfect you're
starting with us on the 17th and that's been the story of my life for years
um so very rarely do I get time off time off is one of those things that happen
to other people well sounds like oh you love to be on set I do I do I did I do
to thrive on the stress that's I admittedly and but yeah takes its toll
on very mellow when I'm not on set but definitely you got to keep things moving
you know my pace dictates you know the crew the departments and how fast the
crew works so you got to keep that energy going wait walk it up ages up
have any ones on the face 71 straight up here we go everyone to one good swing
boy quiet everywhere you're just joining us
now it's a lovely time and say your cell phones on stun light go ahead sorry but
my um department has want to know for doing a free life or any of the scenes
no it's a hospital room in here samples are pretty good yeah well this
will be changed because this is the old look this is a vengeance work so we're
going into modern look not even sure if it's still this room it
might be the room across the way cool boy here James tub double check but let
me see which one he wants to use thank you very much no worries Oh indoors and
shooting outdoors obviously indoors is more controllable especially during
sound stages and you control so much more outside you're at the mercy of the
elements the weather you have to power the lights if you're using lights noise
factors also play into it airplanes and helicopters which we tend
to get a lot of here now a lot of here in LA and yeah so it's easier to shoot
indoors I want you to doing this come on since 1991 not to say dangers in the
industry since 91 so a long time very long time have you seen it changed
especially now with DSLR oh yeah dramatically actually on I I just saw
the change when I did the third film I were to shoot on a red and it was like
ah this magic can still change things in LA at first there's a lot of directors
that were alike all pro always shoot on film and now most have come around to
say I'll never again so some some will hold on to the purist will hold on to
that but you know it's the way of the future you know and yes everything's
changed dramatically some things are easier and some things are actually more
difficult in the back end like you know the advent of HD a tree like I feel bad
for makeup artists because in HD it really separates the pros from the
amateurs because you see you catch so much more definition in detail I say I
felt at most around 2007 2008 where really was just everyone was going
digital all right boys and girls ladies and
gentlemen pictures up last looks last looks during prep I'm responsible for
putting the schedule together um it's it's very it's a time-honored art to
prep the film and to schedule it accordingly and so that's basically your
baby in a way is a schedule you know you haven't written the script that's the
director of the mine whose baby are the directors the way he shoots it that's
his baby and the writer how he writes it that's his baby I schedule it that's my
baby so it's kind of like seeing that baby come to fruition is making a
schedule that works that that we're making as we stay on schedule and I that
part I do thrive thrive on movie magic is what I use it's kind of an industry
standard so there's a shooting schedule that I put together there's all your
cast members and this is it I have to you know group all the locations within
a day and see what works with location stipulations actress stipulations or all
the different scenes and here's every day of the shoot and all this has to be
ironed out during the prep and I put all this together and then on top of that
each one of these scenes needs to be broken down don't they
for all the elements so I have what's also called the breakdown and I do these
every scene as you can see you know as I'm broken out or who's in it what props
are needed what vehicles are needed makeup notes stunts wardrobe is notes
yeah so every scene has to be broken down like that and then of course though
you've seen the schedule and put in an order that makes sense for the
production and I always turn in a breakdown in both schedule order and see
an order so it's easier for the department heads to kind of bounce
around and see what they need by lunchtime we have the drop what's called
a preliminary and I make sure the department has take a look at it so they
can throw in there a few cents and I go over it with the director and my second
idea over lunch you actually you know why who puts it together I approve it
and make the changes and we like to have enough by the end of the day if you know
because things change like what the scene has to push from today to tomorrow
in fact case then you know and it needs to be on
a call she's attended out or emailed at the end of the night so usually end of
the day if nothing's changed dramatically since the lunchtime meeting
that will hand out a call to the end of the day they definitely get it an email
form as well so yeah end of the day I love when I'm done with prep because I'm
more of a I mean I got the paperwork down to a science but at the same time I
prefer to be on set I'm not a paperwork I I gotta keep the keep the earth moving
let's go again going again right away oh yeah right away reset please everyone to
one ya know looks last looks playing I love it when things are cut out I like
I'll really and I get that all the time or directors like I still like the scene
we're gonna have to cut this inner that so you know like I'm so sorry to hear
that it's great except means I have more time to get other things and make my day
listen up a great job by the way coming in on Eastern working hand and knocking
out our day this earlier we were thinking about stealing a scene we're
not going to so we are going to wrap early under the auspices that everyone
understands in our last day day after tomorrow we will most likely go over
okay it's about in low down low it in load out and a company move and that's
also the day that this scene that we were going to pick up is is on so we
were going to pick it up to make it lighter but we figured you guys would
rather have Easter and the couple hours early done now now that being said on
that last day we will have a proper second meal available for everybody when
that time comes okay so yeah we we have we have a question because if it is not
okay with anybody that we are doing that we can still we still have time to pick
that up today I need to make sure everybody is actually okay with this and
if they are not we will push for it today today yeah but if everybody's okay
with it you all can go home right now and feel free to step forward I mean
don't know it's it's either way we're going to get the scene so it's not it's
data you do not have to feel bad if you I have a problem with it yes certain
certain seems like to turn into what I call time vampires and I'm a huge fan of
you knows that's when I start to get a little meaner on set I was at AG you
have to walk a fine line between you know being stern and yet keeping a
jovial attitude you know keeping morale high and I do walk that fine line but if
a scene is taking too long that changes or I have to really start
cracking the whip and puttin my foot down so yeah so it's almost like you're
playing good cop and bad cop Lindsay at the same time yeah it's very
schizophrenic no it's not yes it is anyway so you know who said that
Haymarket yeah come on dad hold on quiet and Hatchin yeah it doesn't happen often
but there are curveballs that you never see coming
you can't prep for you can't plan for and it's it's the experience of an ad an
experience staging to be able to rise to those challenges that come that the ones
you don't see coming and to be a problem solver and find ways to fix it based on
my experience so yeah those are the ones and you never know you know you never
see them coming you can't predict them without naming names or titles it was an
airplane set and it was day one our first day of shooting and we were going
to shoot in a cockpit and our department promised this cockpit they were building
was going to be great and they sent pictures of the plans to the director
and promised it would look good and they'd work and things weren't I heard
like we're two days of shooting and the build wasn't they weren't sending
pictures and whatnot so we weren't going to see anything till that day they're
going to build all night it was going to look beautiful and you know the
producers were like we're taking a chance on that we showed up that morning
everything was barely built and we were waited and we waited and we waited and
when they finally built this company I wake you out we've called lunch and we
haven't shot anything yet and then after lunch by the time they finish the
cockpit the director looked at it and said we're not shooting this one looks
like crap so I'm like what do we we had to rent a
cockpit from a rental house had it trucked had it on
brought it over to the soundstage it was big pain yes getting that cockpit
rebuilt cockpit off the truck and into the soundstage and we had to address it
and rig it and light it and I finally got my shot right before I called wrap
that was an 80s nightmare that all to have this whole day scheduled so
thankfully on day two I did evolved I made sure I brought in day one and day
two at the same time and put us back on schedule
the same day so that was that was probably one of the most challenging
things had never never my career have I not gotten a shot before lunch let alone
at the end of the day it's just preposterous and to have a whole set
thrown out and another one brought in it was just mind-boggling
so yeah crazy Tuesdays everybody bring rain gear rain gear for your dugout for
your equipment and what-have-you all right guys great getting work today
seriously guys stick a fork in it that's a wrap
Happy Easter oh very nice that's around