What are the union standards for 2nd meal? A reality show I worked on last year would only grant 1 meal penalty per day-so if there was a meal penalty for lunch, they wouldn’t give us an additional meal penalty if 2nd meal was late
Was it a union show? If so, they don't get to set a limit on MPs. You could still report it to the union and potentially get the crew compensated. Always report these type of things to the union. They will fight for you. Thats what they are there for. Every 6 hours you have to stop work for 30min. It almost never happens for 2nd meal, but you get MPs on the back end as well for 2nd meal on union jobs. This may be more difficult to get on non union.
im on my first show as an AC and all this information is amazing please never stop because i dont think they can find information on the internet as direct as you. im currently trying to build out my kit. i just bought my fizz and about to start getting my cart bought. thanks for doing what your doing
When you were talking about working a seventh day I thought of the film Unforgiven. The final scenes were shot in a 36 hour marathon with a single break for sleep because of an approaching blizzard. Apparently the studio wasn't informed to subvert the MP
If you're crew...it'd good to get more money but at the loss of not breaking for lunch on time. Good for production because they can shoot past lunch but bad because they have to pay more. Personally I'd rather just break on time...going into MP multiple days in a row can really suck.
What are the union standards for 2nd meal? A reality show I worked on last year would only grant 1 meal penalty per day-so if there was a meal penalty for lunch, they wouldn’t give us an additional meal penalty if 2nd meal was late
Was it a union show? If so, they don't get to set a limit on MPs. You could still report it to the union and potentially get the crew compensated. Always report these type of things to the union. They will fight for you. Thats what they are there for. Every 6 hours you have to stop work for 30min. It almost never happens for 2nd meal, but you get MPs on the back end as well for 2nd meal on union jobs. This may be more difficult to get on non union.
im on my first show as an AC and all this information is amazing please never stop because i dont think they can find information on the internet as direct as you. im currently trying to build out my kit. i just bought my fizz and about to start getting my cart bought. thanks for doing what your doing
When you were talking about working a seventh day I thought of the film Unforgiven. The final scenes were shot in a 36 hour marathon with a single break for sleep because of an approaching blizzard. Apparently the studio wasn't informed to subvert the MP
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I got a meal penalty on the last tvshows I was on and idk why I got it
Are they good or bad. Because I just joined the DGC. I'm very new to the industry
If you're crew...it'd good to get more money but at the loss of not breaking for lunch on time. Good for production because they can shoot past lunch but bad because they have to pay more. Personally I'd rather just break on time...going into MP multiple days in a row can really suck.