That’s a fair question… You can’t use their air conditioning and such because for one, we spend a ton of time getting sound levels setup correctly and noise must be kept to a minimum. Aside from that, when you have a hundred people going in and out of a house for hours and hours, stirring up dust and all manner of shit, you could easily burn up the homeowners unit, costing untold amounts of money on top of the already expensive shoot. It’s just too much liability. This is why they bring huge portable units ran through open windows. The house AC would basically run non-stop the entire time in what was 100+ degree weather, which will easily fuck up a consumer AC unit. There’s more to it I’m sure, but I was merely a sweat sacrifice for the main actor during setup, but I have no doubt the liabilities involved in onsite shoots is enormous.
Edit - also, we are filming and rehearsing the whole time. It takes a considerable amount of time and effort to make high quality media.
Understood. One point though, a normally functioning AC unit is designed to run continuously during the hottest part of the day at the hottest part of the year. But I doubt the woman with a piss-house had an AC unit that was fully up to par
Running continuously with two people in the house and all doors and windows shut is still a completely different task than dozens of people, equipment that produces a shit ton of heat and doors constantly open because people come and go all the time.
Fully agree with that lol. Regardless, when utilizing others properties for this sort of thing I’ve never seen the production use anything but what they owned to limit damages and possible lawsuits. I’m no expert on why, but I do know that’s how it is. Which makes sense from an investment point of view.
That’s a fair question… You can’t use their air conditioning and such because for one, we spend a ton of time getting sound levels setup correctly and noise must be kept to a minimum. Aside from that, when you have a hundred people going in and out of a house for hours and hours, stirring up dust and all manner of shit, you could easily burn up the homeowners unit, costing untold amounts of money on top of the already expensive shoot. It’s just too much liability. This is why they bring huge portable units ran through open windows. The house AC would basically run non-stop the entire time in what was 100+ degree weather, which will easily fuck up a consumer AC unit. There’s more to it I’m sure, but I was merely a sweat sacrifice for the main actor during setup, but I have no doubt the liabilities involved in onsite shoots is enormous.
Edit - also, we are filming and rehearsing the whole time. It takes a considerable amount of time and effort to make high quality media.
Understood. One point though, a normally functioning AC unit is designed to run continuously during the hottest part of the day at the hottest part of the year. But I doubt the woman with a piss-house had an AC unit that was fully up to par
Running continuously with two people in the house and all doors and windows shut is still a completely different task than dozens of people, equipment that produces a shit ton of heat and doors constantly open because people come and go all the time.
Fully agree with that lol. Regardless, when utilizing others properties for this sort of thing I’ve never seen the production use anything but what they owned to limit damages and possible lawsuits. I’m no expert on why, but I do know that’s how it is. Which makes sense from an investment point of view.