SAG

Screen Actors Guild

In my preproduction post I forgot to mention my goings on with SAG. Well I got all the paperwork after I submitted my initial information sheet via email from my representative. I called my local contact and found out he was on vacation till the 14th. Well we started shooting on the 27th and I had to have all this paper work in 3 weeks before we started shooting. Great. It’s not that it was hard or a lot of paper work. I’m just not a lawyer and don’t understand what some of the stuff means and I wanted to make sure that I did everything write and didn’t get in trouble or anything. Well I ended up call the emergency number left on my local contacts voicemail and talked to the regional director. It was a miracle I got her. Her assistant had the day off so she was answering her own phone calls. She helped me for about an hour as I asked her all kinds of questions. I couldn’t believe how nice she was. I filled out all the paper work and sent it in. it was a little late but the regional director assured me it would be fine. When the time came I called my contact when he got back from vacation and informed him on where we where in the process. I had to give the SAG office a deposit of 350 for the Sag actors to ensure that they got paid had we run out of money or something. Well as we got closer and closer to production I got nervous because I wasn’t hearing anything. I called and called and called and it was impossible to talk to anyone that wasn’t someone’s assistant. Like I said, it was a miracle I got the regional director when I did. Anyway we didn’t get final approval until 2pm the day we started shooting at about 20min before we needed to start shooting with our first sag actor. Talk about cutting it short. From there I had to keep a log of the sag actor’s time and the meal and send the paper work off right way to sag along with a check for the performer. Fun times. ;)