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[Chance1234]

Just wondering what wind up's people have done or been a victim of on set.

A couple to throw in,

We set up the camera, monitor etc etc and there was teh DOP, Cameraman , myself the first and second AD and a few other crew behind the monitor. We told one of the new crew members that we need to do a white balance follow focus and duely handed them a bit of white paper and told them to stand in front of the camera. We then asked them to revolve the bit of paper and jump backwards and forwards whilst another member of crew measured how far they jumped. We then got them hoping and revolving the paper in a circular motion. :-)

On another shoot, we told a crew member that we needed to do an edge of frame test. We duely taped the ends of his fingers with camera tape and told him to stand in front of the camera and put his arms out. We then told him to bring his left arm into his waist and bring his righ arm up and slightly bend his hand. It was then we started singing the Tea pot song :-)

The best one by far that i have heard (and yet to come up with anything so good) is one of the guys i was workign with on Troy was telling us ab0ut Blackhawk down. They had been on location for two months and had been badgering the production manager for a cameo. It came to the final days worth of shooting and the PM said they could be extra;s aslong as they went and got Army rangers Haircuts, which they did. They turned up to do their extraing and was immediatly handed hats as part of their costume.

[emjen]

Well, err... this one time, we didn't have a toilet nearby, so I searched out this spot in some corner, thought the coast was clear, and started peeing. When I looked to the right, I saw this guy, eating, in a restaurant, and he didn't look too happy. Nor did the manager. I tried saying sorry with my head because I was still using my hands for something else. Didn't really work.

And ehm... well, I haven't really fooled anyone like you described on set.

<font color="#a62a2a" size="1">[ December 07, 2004 09:39 AM: Message edited by: emjen ]</font>

[m0d]

Well, it wasn't really a wind up but it'll sure boost up your reply count, Chance.

Whilst on set in Scotland for Indiana Jones & the treasure of the templars, we shot at the same cave as the Monty Python Holy Grail killer rabbit scene. We believe we got a curse! the curse of the templars [img]biggrin.gif[/img] On the way out from shooting the land-rover I'd come up in (Luton - Scotland at 45mph isnt that fun, nor is having no windows) crashed into a tree and the occupants of that vehicle (I had luxury seating in another car, well, four of us crammed into the back) although uninjured, were then devoured by millions of midgies.

A day or so later we were then met by armed response policemen at our hq, a flat in Dundee. Someone had seen us entering with lots of "equipment" and we had stage firearms. Someone probably thought we were terrorists & reported us! [img]biggrin.gif[/img]

i also had to sleep in a tent on a mountain that was one of those 9.99 argos play-tents. with no sleeping bag. I've had better sleep.

We got good footage though [img]wink.gif[/img]

[untamed_aggression]

Again, not so much a prank, as a running joke throughout the filming of Angry and Moist.

Nick typically had to go to work after we'd finished shooting, so of course he didn't want to get too messy.

But, this IS a zombie flick...



Also, he shouldn't really volunteer to do the messiest jobs, like squirting blood from under tables...

"Get me out!" (Mov, 900kb)

[emjen]

Oh yeah, I ran into cops a few times as well.

We did this 'cd-store robber story with bananas instead of guns' and I was one of the three masked robbers. We had to enter the store in the opening shot so we waited outside (on a sunday when the shops are closed, mind you) for the action cue.

It wasn't on a main street, it was on a side street from the main street, so everyone from the main street looking in our direction saw three masked fellows. With bananas. To quate a pedestrian:

"Hey look, a robber! And he has a banana!"

Next thing you know, the side street is blocked by police cars, and an entire team is storming into the cd-shop, getting me and my fellow acting robbers outside, on our knees with our hands up (and cops ain't nice when they want you on your knees) putting up a good show for the sundaywalkers that day.

Ye it was teh fun. But why didn't they look at the bananas?

[Spunkey1pestic]

Well,I directed/acted in a short in 98'and it was one prank after another - I discovered on the second day of shooting that my lead was "an obessive germ freak" (So laying on the ground or touching things grossed him out) On his last day-we had a car chase and I told the officer instead of cuffing him against the car like all the other takes,rather make him sprawl eagle on the ground- The whole crew came apart, as "Kayle" struggled to stay in charater and then immediately freaked out when I called cut...

a few days after that It was pay back- I got suckered into acting and it was going to be my first on-screen kiss- and the dude I was working with (as a joke) lathered on about 10 pounds of vaseline. when I went in for the kiss - I came back with lips driping vaseline- it was funny!!

Oh, I forgot about this one, my project this summer- the talent was suppose to spit his coffee out in a scene. well instead of coffee the crew put Whistishire Sauce,I thought he was going to puke... we rolled for an hour and he checked every drink given him after that!

<font color="#a62a2a" size="1">[ December 08, 2004 04:42 PM: Message edited by: Spunkey1pestic ]</font>