Bad Luck Assistant

When you miss that one cup on your litter sweep.

When the location assistant is asked to create a map for the movement order.

It was actually Daniel Day-Lewis playing the traffic warden. He’s a versatile actor. bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…

Me writing the movement order knowing no one is going to read it but enjoying the process anyway.

Sitting in a meeting with the producers because the Supervising Location Manager couldn’t make it.

Thank goodness I remembered to get a CAD number!

Walking around set after the ADs called “rolling”.

When I can't tell who is BG and who is unhoused neighborhood people

That marshal who did one day on set and yet still somehow gets an invite to the wrap party.

When locations hear the sparks going into a room they’re not allowed in. twitter.com/HollyAnderson/…

Typical Location Manager behaviour…

have we tried turning Hollywood off and back on again?

@UnluckyLocation If it had been in Bristol, they could have just did what they did with the costume trailer to extinguish the flames!!

Imagine needing to phone the producer with this news…

What the designer What the wants: budget allows:

The TECHS are parked TOO FAR away.

Dakota Johnson says "it’s really f*cking bleak in this industry. It is majorly disheartening." “The people who run streaming platforms don’t trust creative people or artists to know what’s going to work, and that is just going to make us implode. It’s really heartbreaking. It’s just f*cking so hard. It’s so hard to get anything made." "Everyone who makes decisions is afraid. They want to do the safe thing, and the safe thing is really boring." Read more here: variety.com/2024/film/news…

Me about to stop a member of public from walking into shot.

The filming proposal I'm working on is so long I might need an index or table of contents at this point 🙃