I'm sorry, Mr. Radnor....

Fun day yesterday.

Got in on an episode of Lie to Me (technically ep. 102...which will air out of sequence) and it started at 1400. I was a camera operator, so I was expecting to be given a prop.

Not, however, a 30 pound prop that would act as a meat mallet to my paltry little shoulder. Not terrible, it's a bruise, I'm not gonna cry, but I'm stiff this morning.

In the process of humping around with that camera (during a particularly chaotic POV shot with a real steadicam in the middle) I managed to cut in front of the camera, as I was supposed to, and had a split second of, "This ain't gonna work..." CRAAACK! That was the sound of my whale of a prop smacking the real camera...probably punching the poor camera op right in the face. Nobody yelled at me, and I didn't get fired, but good gravy. Who hits a camera that's worth more than my life net earnings...at a dead run?

ALSO

as if that one massive goof wasn't enough, I pulled another bone-head play ealier in the day. We were on the Fox lot, and shooting on stage 21...except we weren't on stage 21. We were shooting in the alley outside stage 21. Apparently the back alley spaces on the lot are fair game. Well, they were hosing down the pavement, because it was supposed to be wet, and so I moved off to the side...directly in front of a door. I thought it was (or, more accurately, didn't stop to think that it might not be) a door to stage 21. It wasn't.

No, it wasn't.

Just as a smallish Phillipino security was going to politely suggest that I not stand in front of the door, BAMMO! A hood installed to block the big red light on the door caught me right in the back. I stepped away and peeked in the door (along with the security guy) and saw a slightly confused face obviously done with shooting makeup (not, like, I've been shot, but the heavy cake of make-up you need for sound stage lighting) and I hear, "Yeah, my trailer's that way."

It was Josh Radnor, aka Ted from How I met your Mother. I imagine he wasn't expecting the door to bounce back in his face.

So, yes, I fiddled with TWO shows in one day.


Woooooooo-oooooow.

I'm a professional.