[00:00] You guys, in five minutes when cameras are ready, safety meeting. We're going to power over here and just walk through what's going to happen. And we're going to do it.
[00:15] Well, safety is the penultimate kind of responsibility for the first safety. You know, it's the duty of safety and time. Don't make me compound that. There's more chances for accidents to happen on a set than a hundred times more than in your daily life.
[00:29] daily life and it's fun and you're doing something really cool and like magical but uh take it very seriously because you have a lot of people that you're responsible for all right guys gather around come in so for a quick sec we're just going to walk through it's about to happen so as for yesterday
[00:46] okay once we get up and going i want to make sure that everybody understands that they cannot be anywhere within this size of wire okay you see it's running from the post the truck and then
[00:58] down near the back of this truck. Everybody needs to be on the other side of the great all, back by the tent, watching from a distance. And the reason why is in case of the problem with this wire, it will snap, it comes loose, it will whip around, and it will take your foot off if it's going fast enough.
[01:11] Okay, so everybody needs to be back down, back behind the great all, all right? When we're totally ready, we'll run cameras, have them just up and going, and then Josh, it's gonna be up to you, we'll do a three, two, one action call
[01:23] like we did yesterday. You're gonna drive, you got the tail safe built into it, Joe is driving, I'm on the button to trip the table if something goes wrong. And then there's a brake mechanism in the truck that Kevin will activate remotely.
[01:36] If the truck goes off course or gets whacked out or something. And that gets activated so the truck will stop and this truck will get released. Great, you got your fire extinguishers, whatever you need. Yeah, we'll have them down here.
[01:48] This street down here we're going to have locked up so that we don't have any potential someone just not coming through these zones coming down here. We're going to have a water truck down here too, Stacey, so this thing ignites into a ball of flames. Everybody just spread back against the wall, and we'll let those who need to put it out come up here.
[02:06] Once it's done, I want to have a factor come over and make sure there's nothing leaking from the car, anything that could cause another problem that could explode. We'll let the cameras run until it's safe, then we'll come in and we'll cut cameras. When you're on set, nothing is ever going to go as you're planning it,
[02:21] and you're less the director telling us what's going to happen and more of a problem solver as to how we're going to fix something. You know what I mean? Action! Action!
[02:45] Everybody stay back. In this case, with the truck being broken, and it's like, okay, this truck's axle's broken. It going to hit the mark the way that we intended to How do we make it work now Oh that doesn sound good
[03:13] That's fine. That truck we just shut down, that work. Like close to the safety, like almost the same color, you know. It's mostly when something's broken, it's almost you're more aware of it. Yeah. As it's like, yeah, no man camera. like just because you weren't sure if the truck was going to go where it needed to go.
[03:27] There's a good chance this truck is going to go off into the fence. Like even in the footage where you see like the truck swerved off and like hit the fence. When it hit the camera, it was, it swerved off and hit the pole and the brake system failed because the cable got pulled before they hit the brake system and hit the camera.
[03:41] And you should never have had a person on that camera. But again, it's almost like because the car was broken, we were even more aware of the chance of something going wrong and you were extra, extra safe. Like, don't go there. But the thing is, you should be that safe even if everything's going smoothly.
[03:54] because a chance could always go wrong. Like kind of going back to the notion of prepping, you know what I mean? Like if that defense is a good offense, you can say like, okay, we're going to have a truck ramming into a run. What could go wrong here? And just come up with like 20 different reasons.
[04:07] Or a good scenario. And then that way, once you have those scenarios, you're aware of them so that when they do happen on the day, you're not caught off guard. Yeah. And so then you can kind of be like, okay, well, here's the fail safe, and here's plan B, C, and D.
[04:20] You know what I mean? And then you just kind of keep rolling through there. And then sometimes you just have to kind of say, well, we've got to walk away from this. We've got to return to it, you know, and figure it out another day because today's just not the day. Yeah. And that's okay. Yeah.
[04:32] Like knowing that that's an option, you know, something that like everybody should come to set sort of knowing. Like, you know, it's just not working. Figure it out another way. Yeah. And safety, the way you build something to be safe is just through communication.
[04:46] Yeah. Through constant communication. All right. Is there a double concern? These are my two cards. You know, if you've got walkies, you use them.
[05:00] You know, I always, I'm a little surprised when I show up on set, like, we don't have walkies, because it's like, that's my only tool in my arsenal. Yeah. It's like, let people know what's happening. It's like, as soon as there's a breakdown in communication, that's when a breakdown in safety happens.
[05:14] Yeah. And everybody wants the truck to go back. Everybody needs to clear out back when the truck is stuck. Yeah, because it looks pretty wise. And that is the three-chamber plan. Yeah. I remember the closest accident we ever had was just a breakdown of communication
[05:30] because we were doing car stuff every day in high school. And there was just people moving camera equipment down the street, like far away from where the car set was going, but it still should have been moved. And it was 4 a.m. and people weren't communicating.
[05:43] And it was time to move stuff. They were doing their stuff right after packing up. And then a car came around the corner. and then when they turn the corner like oh please have that car stop like it always stops because if it keeps going it could hit somebody and it just a simple everyone doing like the right steps it was a simple breakdown in communication because also sometimes a set is huge Sometimes it four football fields long and there people doing things over here
[06:04] and we're doing stuff over here. And actually the danger can be everywhere. And even if you're really experiencing it, it was just a really sad, tragic accident that happened with a helicopter pilot and a helicopter camera operator.
[06:16] He's one of the tops in the industry. And he was going through a canyon to get a shot for I forget what the film was, but the wind just picked up just so. Tilted the blades and, you know, they died. Yeah.
[06:28] Just like, you know, they've been doing this for 25, 30 years. So it's like, you just never know. Like, no matter how skilled you are, you're still working with tools that can fail in any capacity on set. There's a reason, like, drones are great because now you don't have to use helicopter pilots
[06:41] because the helicopter is always a danger. And to us, when we scrap and we start doing these big stunts, it always is like, what, it's cool to do it for real, and obviously there's something you get from that,
[06:53] but what are all the steps you can take to minimize anything happening? I mean, even with an assistant director, it's like, it's always been my responsibility. Like, if somebody gets hurt on set, it's because of the vibe I created and it's because it created a vibe
[07:05] that the shot was more important than safety or there was desperation in trying to get stuff. And it's hard to break habits and I think now is when you start learning that. If you start filmmaking guerrilla and like always are just like, oh, I'll just get the shot.
[07:17] And it's one thing to risk your own life, it's one thing to be like, I'm just going to get the shot and I'm going to run out in front of the car and get a cool shot. The problem is that sort of behavior will continue on when you get a crew. And you're going to be like, why is my cinematographer just running out in front of the car? Because I would have done that.
[07:29] But that's stupid. You're just lucky you didn't get killed. And you can't ask other people to do that. And I think it's important to develop that mindset now because, again, it's hard to break the kind of philosophy you have with managing a crew.
[07:42] And whether it's you and your friends or 100 people, if you act like a renegade who doesn't care whether or not you get hit by a car, you're going to feel that same way when you have 50 people on set. You've got to put people first.
[07:54] Yeah. And it's a good thing because if you put people first, the movie will benefit. Yeah. If you put the movie first, the movie will suffer because the people will feel like they're not taken care of. They won't work as hard. They won't be as creative.
[08:06] And you won't get the best possible version of what it is you're saying. Yeah. If you have weapons on set, even if you're using an escort gun, sometimes for people who really don't like guns, you've got to just make them feel like somebody's aware of their concern and cater towards them.
[08:19] I want your upset. It's weird by me that something in it's a big hollow tube. It's not fire, no moving pieces. It just looks very incensed. I will be holding it, Josh will be holding it, and Clint, our director, will be playing our rock and roll. The guy behind that fence will be holding it.
[08:33] Everyone's suspected. Feel free to do so. Dom? They may not want to speak up, but they may feel uncomfortable with the gun on set. And they're allowed to check it and be like, okay, it is actually rubber or it's not real or whatever it is. Because, I mean, even on big shoots there have been accidents.
[08:46] Well, that's the thing, it's like you have these fake weapons and they look so real that sometimes, if you busy you tired you go and you grab the wrong one Yeah And if somebody doesn sort of check it or double check it then you know it just it can be that thing Yeah There another thing that I learned when I was on like an action short film with this guy
[09:03] who was a former SWAT member. He was like something they train you day one of SWAT is slow is smooth and it's fast. Because if you start moving fast and start going quick you make accidents and you gotta go back and you
[09:15] gotta reduce it and it all just sort of dominoes right back. We got that from Andrew and we say it all the time. If you go go faster. He's like, go smooth, slow and smooth and then you'll go faster.
[09:27] Okay. Yeah, that's good. There you go. Take a breath. People will appreciate you speaking up and now when I go into another set, I'm going to remember, hey, I should bring that PA along or I should bring that assistant along
[09:39] because they were good, they worked hard and not only that but they're aware and that is an important thing in the industry. Yeah. Don't be afraid to speak up. If you're feeling uncomfortable about something, if you're feeling sick, if you're feeling tired,
[09:51] whatever, let us know because we're here to take care of you. And that's also a big part of the producer's job too, to ensure that everybody feels like they're taken care of. Having these sort of different departments and having them all be responsible for their own individual safety.
[10:04] Like nobody touches an electric cable or a panel box unless you're an electrician. So you sort of kind of delegate in charge of what to ensure that everything's being taken care of. Absolutely. Roger, some people need like a cool like be safe motto.
[10:19] Yeah, I was just going to say like have fun, be safe. Yeah. Have fun being safe. No, I hope this was useful in a way of everything you learn on this channel or filmmaking.
[10:32] Like, as lame as it sounds, safety is really the single most important thing. Nothing will end your career or your mental health faster than somebody getting injured on set. It's not. It's never worth it.
[10:44] And you want to do the cool stuff. And you want to do all the safe stuff that Andrew made sure we were safe doing. Check out my morning meeting. I think you get some good morning meeting action, actually, in the documentary on the Hulu show. So go over to Hulu and check out the show.
[10:58] And hopefully it was educational. And thank you for Rocket Jump Film School. Yes, I think this is great. It's great to talk about this. I think it's something that doesn't get talked about enough. It's something that's sort of like you realize suddenly when you're in the thick of it.
[11:11] And so having a discussion up front about it is really a good thing. And it's always sad to hear when something awful happens on a shoot and then suddenly safety becomes a concern because it really should always be a concern. and ongoing dialogue, you know, always.
[11:23] So 12 on, 12 off. Check out their website. Big favor of that. And, yeah, look forward to the OOV show. Awesome. All right. That's it. Three, two, one.
[11:35] Have fun. Be safe.
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