Tails

“Tails” refers to the tail slate, the clap at the end of a take when things get flipped around—and this blog is just that: a flipped-around peek behind the scenes of my second feature.

Today was a weird skeleton crew day.

Started the day off by getting yelled at by some reps for not getting a nudity rider signed by the talent before filming with her. I had honestly lost track of actor paperwork and had been relying on the production team to see it through. First, the angry rep said they were going to call SAG and get us shut down. Then they claimed they could sue us for negligence.

The attorney took full responsibility. And also told them they had no grounds for their claims to shut us down with SAG or negligence.

I feel like I’m looking around and seeing wasteful use of money. We didn’t need this many people for a skeleton crew day. Makes me wonder how much excess we’re paying for on other days that we could’ve gone without. Maybe our production team just doesn’t get how indies work and are used to only working on bigger projects.

Producer got our money back from peerspace. Very frustrating. But she really kicked ass. So glad I have her on my team.

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