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To: ManyMoose who wrote (711456)	11/6/2005 3:25:09 PM
From: GROUND ZERO™	Respond to of 769667

A film production crew, on average, works a solid 12 to 14 hour day, six or seven days a week... it costs so much to put the set together at any specific location, makeup, costume, technical, and so on (referred to as below the line), that it makes no sense to work only 6 or 8 hours... the budget itself is 25 pages long of nothing but fine print, and accounts for everyone from the Executive Producer and the lead talent all the way down to the carpenters on the set who fix things on the spot... food also has to be brought in to feed everyone, much like feeding troops in the field, people can't just take an hour lunch and drive off to Wendy's for a burger... catering the crew for a film runs upwards to $300K for a film that has a 30 day principal photography schedule... it just isn't cheap to put something like that together, but it does put hundreds of people back to work... I didn't see that program, but I'm sure it gave people some idea of the work involved in putting a film together... it's a ton of work, but loads of fun... GZ