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by analyst74 1420 days ago
> Film crews are incredibly overworked, underpaid and work in absolutely terrible conditions.

People get into the arts by choice, nobody chooses to work in films because they're starving. It's weird to feel sorry for people who get to do their dream jobs.

> Film production is an intricate machine that requires everything to be perfectly in place in order to get a shot and things very frequently go wrong even without random people walking on set and gumming up the works.

I've been on filmsets and have the opposite impression. While they have a script that describes the set, most of it is actually improvised. As long as you don't get into the shot, or disrupt people doing work, you are not affecting the production.

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Lots of people choose their industry.

I have heard endless complaints from fellow devs about being overworked and burnt out.

I think it’s okay to point out when conditions are rough even if you’re getting paid to do the thing you wanted to do.