Septic Tank Tony
By Tony Vallone story, screenplay, associate producer
One of the things we need to do for each shooting location is make sure that we have basic things like bathrooms and stuff set up for our actors and crew. Last week we were filming in a parking lot and didn't have a bathroom available to us so our solution was to rent an RV.
It worked out very well for a the few days we had it. The grip team stopped yelling at production for putting our chairs and stuff in their truck, and the actors had a place near set they could hang out.
But then it slowly dawned on us that all the fun bathroom time happening in the RV was going to come at a price. The waste gate needed to be empty of all the lovely solid and liquid...you know. I remember watching the "Training" video when we picked up the RV but never really thought about emptying the waste. I was too busy laughing at the two actors in the video who I swear to god were the happiest people I've ever seen cleaning out their own poop from ann RV.
At 6 am, the end of our last day with the RV, we were reminded that it needed to be returned 20 miles away by 11 am. We weren't exactly sure where the waste would go, or what the proper procedure was. Dan and Steve Gersh (executive producer) drove off anyways and hoped to just find a solution. After they left, an image of a half mile long stain of toilet juices on 101 with Steve giving a big thumbs up popped into my head.
So what did Dan and Steve do? Where did they dump the waste? Did they return everything on time? Well, it turns out the fine for not removing the waste is only $50 so they just returned the RV with full pipes and we took a little hit. Sorry it wasn't more interesting.
One of the things we need to do for each shooting location is make sure that we have basic things like bathrooms and stuff set up for our actors and crew. Last week we were filming in a parking lot and didn't have a bathroom available to us so our solution was to rent an RV.
It worked out very well for a the few days we had it. The grip team stopped yelling at production for putting our chairs and stuff in their truck, and the actors had a place near set they could hang out.
But then it slowly dawned on us that all the fun bathroom time happening in the RV was going to come at a price. The waste gate needed to be empty of all the lovely solid and liquid...you know. I remember watching the "Training" video when we picked up the RV but never really thought about emptying the waste. I was too busy laughing at the two actors in the video who I swear to god were the happiest people I've ever seen cleaning out their own poop from ann RV.
At 6 am, the end of our last day with the RV, we were reminded that it needed to be returned 20 miles away by 11 am. We weren't exactly sure where the waste would go, or what the proper procedure was. Dan and Steve Gersh (executive producer) drove off anyways and hoped to just find a solution. After they left, an image of a half mile long stain of toilet juices on 101 with Steve giving a big thumbs up popped into my head.
So what did Dan and Steve do? Where did they dump the waste? Did they return everything on time? Well, it turns out the fine for not removing the waste is only $50 so they just returned the RV with full pipes and we took a little hit. Sorry it wasn't more interesting.
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