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Feeling the Heat with Technological Warfare

Have you ever received a warning from your iPhone in the summer? *your phone is about to over heat*.
It’s rare but, don’t try this at home, if you leave it in the sun for too long you’ll be shown this message. Try and pick it up and you’ll burn your fingers, thanks to the heat retaining properties of metal and glass.

Car transport semi

En route to location

Now, imagine this not just with an iPhone but with a LOT of metal and glass. With metal rigs, huge amounts of camera kit and endless amounts of lights. Add to this the computers and all the technology we use today and you’ve got my recent workplace, right there.

Early mornings & late nights on location – the Alpa in action

Digi tech & the most expensive trolley in the state trying to stay cool!

Keeping the crews body & soul together with on set yoga break

Jordan displays his body art to the local wildlife

On location with the Phase One

It’s like a glistening inferno where one wrong move produces a screech from one of the crew. The computers and digital backs are treated like royalty as they’re fanned with baseball hats and we’re wearing trousers just so we don’t get burns on our go**** (you fill in the blanks).
Sounds like a bit of a 23rd century Indiana Jones movie so far doesn’t it? Where the blistering heat turns the technology that’s meant to save mankind against them and the aliens spot a flaw and take over the world. (I never did agree with using aliens in the last Indy film).
There is of course a benefit to this, we were in some incredible location in Utah & Texas. The scenery is pretty immense and the location throws up many surprises. We’ve visited places that tourists wouldn’t enter, just to get the right shot for one of the recent projects.

Lakeside location – Utah

Bunny spotted on location!

It’s spectacular but it also has warnings along the way of rattlesnakes looking for bait. That would be us then…
As we find it difficult to move a few feet without being burned or feeling the heat we have ‘dinner’ written all over our heads in snake language. Only Harry Potter with his Parseltongue (language of snakes) could save us now.

Beware of rattlesnakes on location

We trekked to the wild blue yonder miles from anywhere. We clocked the snake signs and thought I saw one in the little grass there was. The location was so remote and the call time so early we took the RV and stayed over.
Would we survive the night…?

It’s a wrap – Masons on set spooning antics revealed!

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