Wednesday, September 17, 2008

Typical day in the life of an intern ( by, WM)

A typical day includes waking up 20 minutes before you’re supposed to so that you can be 20 minutes early when you arrive. This will be a typical day at the production office for the Sarah Connor Chronicles, on the Warner Bros. lot. You park across the street and at the gate swipe in and go through a metal detector test. Once in the office there are outboxes for each department that may have anything from a new bike for the cast too the usual envelops for accounting, post, costumes and the other departments. Now your off with the golf cart to deliver, while dropping these packages off you must see if there is anything to pick up, everyone is extremely friendly on Sarah Connor so you say good morning to whoever is in and when you get back, there may be more things to deliver or instead you find different little jobs to do until the prelim call sheet comes in. Then you’re off to the copier making a copy for everyone involved in production. You get lunch where you can and continue making the rounds. Towards the end of the day around 8 there are sides and final call sheets to be made. Sometimes one-liners, so your off to the copy machine again although each task is different they all include copying something for the entire cast. Throughout the day you get a chance to check out the sets and maybe watch a scene get shot here and there. Before you know it you’ve been there 12 hours and its time to go home. You get home make a quick meal settle in for about an hour, maybe do some home work and then off to bed to start it all over again. It may sound boring but it’s actually full of interesting scenarios throughout the day. Sure beats any other job I’ve had.

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