Greetings,
As 1st AD on several productions, I've been aggravated and perplexed by this situation: How slow the crew performs after lunch. My God (the actors seem to do far better).
One shoot was so bad I wanted to "forget" lunch from that day forward and make them work until dinner (Of course, can't do that for humanitarian and Union reasons.). The afternoon shooting on all these films started slow, and took more than an hour after lunch for the crew to get cracking. This is production time we're talking here.
It's normal for us humans to get sluggish after a meal, but got any ideas, remedies to combat this? I'm also wondering if this happens on big-time feature shoots? (Maybe it's a Santa Fe thing, siestas built into the sundial, red chile, something?....)
Thanks for reading and any thoughts!
As 1st AD on several productions, I've been aggravated and perplexed by this situation: How slow the crew performs after lunch. My God (the actors seem to do far better).
One shoot was so bad I wanted to "forget" lunch from that day forward and make them work until dinner (Of course, can't do that for humanitarian and Union reasons.). The afternoon shooting on all these films started slow, and took more than an hour after lunch for the crew to get cracking. This is production time we're talking here.
It's normal for us humans to get sluggish after a meal, but got any ideas, remedies to combat this? I'm also wondering if this happens on big-time feature shoots? (Maybe it's a Santa Fe thing, siestas built into the sundial, red chile, something?....)
Thanks for reading and any thoughts!