The taboo subject that no one seems to want to talk about

[Alec Jarnagin SOC]

Jessica, women don't pass gas. NEVER shatter this illusion.

[Lawrence Karman]

After negotiating a combo rate or a guarantee on a show I clench during steadicam shots and then head over to video village to "watch playback". I quietly release there which ultimately implants a subconscious negative feeling about Steadicam shots and they stop calling for it's use, but I still get paid for it!

[Alec Jarnagin SOC]

They don't call him "Doc Karman" without reason....

[John Stout]

A few code words that could be used to discreetly discuss the problem.

 

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=fart&defid=1354920

[David Steel]

What about those hot summer days being stuck in the darkroom while the rest of the crew get to be in the nice breeze, and your in the black hole, loading all of those mags your hands are getting sweaty and then pffffffftttttt! You let a fart go. You think its kinda funny until you relize you cant escape until that mag is done. Then you start panicing, trying to load faster but it doesnt help and you cant seem to get the film into the take up side...... Still makes my hairs on the back of my neck stick up when this memory comes back.

[Victor Lazaro]

I just use these.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/10/24/fart-filtering-underwear_n_4156400.html?utm_hp_ref=email_share

I need a pair of these!

[JamieSilverstein]

Yeah but during a shot, have you ever had to crouch or boom down loaded for bear, unable to hold back.......... erupting in the middle of the take...... It never happened to me, but I have a friend of a friend who recounted a tale .

Ya know I was on a job where an actor let forth a noisy emission just before the end of a scene. It was during a steadicam shot and shortly after cut, I let the "air clear", walked over to him and told him that he was my hero..............

AND that's why I generally don't eat much lunch when operating steadicam.

Its hard enough for me to compose and make great shots sans gas.

[Dave Chameides]

I'll launch in on this one. About as bad as it gets if you ask me. Back in the day on ER we were doing a scene where the doctors walk a monther and father into the room to see their newborn who has just passed away. Totally quiet scene with no dialogue. Crazy real dummy baby and it was really emotional on all levels. Hushed actions etc etc. I followed them into the room and landed them at the bed, then as the doc picks up the lifeless body and hands it to the grieving parents to hold one last time, I start a sllllooooowwwwwww arc around the bed and eventually end up across from them. As they kiss the babies head and the father leans into place it back on the bed, I slooowwwwwllllllyyyy drop to a knee so I can boom down low and finish on a tight shot of the kid in the foreground and the parents and dad at the end of the bed. And, just like you guessed it, as I started to drop,m so did a long, slow, noisy one which left absolutely no doubt as to what it was, who out was from, and anything else one might question. I nailed the shot, which to this day shocks me, but promptly looked up to catch their eyes which were wide and amazed and looking at me, and said "well I guess we're doing that one again". Not one of my finer hours.

[Tommy Stork]

I just use these.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/10/24/fart-filtering-underwear_n_4156400.html?utm_hp_ref=email_share

 

Dave, I've been putting these on my transmitter, too. People get a little gawky but I'm ok with it.