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moonshade13 |
80. RE: How safe is your workplace?
Apr 3 2012, 2:18 PM EDT
Corp offices with warehouses attached. Over 75% of the office walls are 8-10 ft high glass. External doors & some internally restricted doors (wood with glass panels) are secured with magna-locks & card-key access. Warehouses have 30ft (guesstimate) high ceilings & 10-20 electrically controlled roll up bay doors per wall. Restrooms are hurricane/tornado shelter rated, but no real way to secure the doors which are light wood. Basically, screwed.. Especially when the power goes out & if the backup generators fail.
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Hair-bear |
81. RE: How safe is your workplace?
Jun 30 2012, 8:37 AM EDT
I work in a 'transient' setting, a posh way of saying I work from my van, as such there are some lovely tools and lockpicks and things in the back and it's always got fuel in it so not too bad, but as I'm 50:50 driving:working i'm only in a good position half the time... grim outlook...
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chitoryu12 |
82. RE: How safe is your workplace?
Jun 30 2012, 3:58 PM EDT
I'm an actor, so there's a huge variety of places I can end up in. I spend most of my time in the college theatre, and I know all the entrances and exits by heart. All doors are either double or single metal doors except for the front entrance to the fine arts building, which is glass. Many of the doors are often locked during after-school hours when performances are done, with janitors and security guards both carrying keys for all the doors. Even the inner doors to different rooms are locked and only specifically requested ones are unlocked during performances. There's a rear rollup garage door that spends most of its time closed. The rear door from the shop leads to a parking lot, while the front entrance is accessible by stairs and ramps (the building is on a hill).Being a fully functional theatre, there's a variety of improvised weapons in the shop. Boards and pieces of wood of various sizes and shapes, all the power tools you'll need (stationary and otherwise), hammers, screwdrivers, pneumatic nail guns and staple guns, etc. Do you find this valuable? |
17kuhlman |
83. RE: How safe is your workplace?
Jun 30 2012, 4:06 PM EDT
i go to school so i am dead
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chitoryu12 |
84. RE: How safe is your workplace?
Jun 30 2012, 4:17 PM EDT
After that, the most likely place I'll be working is a film set. There's a huge variation here, but generally it'll be filled with various equipment. It all really depends on the locale; for Rockabilly Zombie Weekend, the first shooting location was private property out in Oviedo for the wedding sequence. Most of the filming was done on a small island surrounded by a moat and the large grassy field nearby. The extras tent was set up next to the house, about 100 yards from the actual filming location on the west side of the property. To the south was a peacock farm (which constantly annoyed the crew), and to the north and west was various private properties. All surrounded by thick forest. A number of vehicles were available as well, with the sound guy having a huge 4x4 pickup.The second location was Johnny Rotten's Bar-Out-Back, a biker bar on Lake Monroe. The north/northeast side is bordered by a road and the lake itself, over 3.5 miles wide. A small dock is on the shore right across from the bar, but the chance of there actually being a working, unoccupied boat is small. Large parking lot wrapping around the building, with a small field to the south. The south and east side are bordered by a big forest with over 1100 yards straight from the parking lot to the nearest road and actually ending about 1.7 miles from the bar. That's a hell of a lot of ground. Next location was the Seminole County Government Building, a former hospital that was converted to be used in hospital scenes. The extras hung out in a hastily erected cinderblock structure that was open air (walls didn't meet the ceiling in most places and only interior doors) that was right on the street, allowing for a quick escape. This was at the back of the building on the south end, with the filming done on the north end at the ramp leading to the entrance. Being a former hospital/current government building, many of the doors were locked at night. Do you find this valuable? |
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chitoryu12 |
85. RE: How safe is your workplace?
Jun 30 2012, 4:33 PM EDT
My last filming location was at the Sanford Airport, specifically at an airplane "parking lot" and the attached building. Extras tent at the north end in the parking lot in front of the (locked) building, with a janitor on site to handle unlocking and opening the gate to the tarmac for the climax. About a dozen big planes, but all tightly packed together; an experienced pilot would take a long time to maneuver out when there's literally 20 feet between you and the next cockpit. The gate out to the planes is electric and controlled by the maintenance man, opening automatically and closing on a timer after a few seconds (just long enough to get a vehicle or two through). This lot of planes leads directly into the taxiing lane, and from there the runway. 270 yards to the east is the StarPort, which often has some smaller planes. A light helicopter was rented for the finale of the film, but only available on one day of filming. There was a large military presence for the film, but all of their weaponry was replaced with airsoft replicas or training grenades. On the plus side, there was also one or two police cars with the requisite officers.All of the sets included craft services, which is just a bunch of snacks, water, and soft drinks for people to munch on and stay hydrated, as well as a food truck that arrived at the 6 hour mark every night with hot meals. Weaponry is unfortunately limited; there were real non-blank adapted firearms (the armorer and his family/friends provided a large amount of guns), but obviously kept unloaded, so we'd need to scavenge. There were a number of actual melee weapons, and I personally carried a pitchfork at the airport. There was also a golf club, baseball bat, and a dulled homemade machete. I'd just like to point out the irony of actual zombies showing up at the set of a zombie film. Do you find this valuable? |
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chitoryu12 |
86. RE: How safe is your workplace?
Jul 1 2012, 9:19 PM EDT
I'll update this tomorrow. I'm filming for a new supernatural TV pilot, Shadowglade, so I'll have yet another location to describe. I did, however, forget to list when I filmed Renee with Chad Michael Murray and Kat Dennings.The first scene I did was the Wall Street Concert. Wall Street is a street in downtown Orlando, often referring to a pedestrian street lined with bars and restaurants and bordered on the east side by a street and then a large park with a lake in the center. Because we were recreating an actual music festival that took place in Renee Yohe's life, the 145 yard stretch (only 25 yards wide) was filled from one side to the other with people. The east side terminated in a small stage for the bands to play. Buses, RVs, and cargo trucks lined the closed road to the sides of the stage. As the night went on, extras dwindled until it was only about 100 people filling in space on the deserted street, with filming continuing until 7:00 AM over the 14 hour shoot. Had an evacuation occurred during the main bulk of filming, it would be a thousand-strong stampede. Any other time, there's a lot of empty space to bolt, including a parking lot and alleyways to the north of the plaza. The second scene I did was the intro of the movie at the theatre at Full Sail University. It was another one with well over a thousand extras, with Chad Michael Murray spending most of his time with a band on the large stage. Cast and crew lined the aisles where they needed to be, but it was a relatively straight shot from my seat on the aisle to the doors at the rear. The road outside was lined with production vehicles and occasionally cast and crew hanging out. Do you find this valuable? |
