it s going to be you plus two assistants, and by the way, one of those assistants is going to be the armorer. so it sounds as though they did understaff that show based on the other prop master s breakdown. the training, it seems to me, that she was asking for a day, a period of time to train with the actors in gun handling, that s my guess, because it s a little unclear the way she said it. additionally, all reports is there weren t enough or maybe no safety meetings. it s standard practice in filmmaking to have a safety meeting if you re going to do pyrotechnics or stunts or firearms or anything that could potentially be dangerous, you have a safety meeting at the beginning of the day, and then you have safety meetings throughout the day where the entire crew circles up, we describe what s about to happen, and they might say, well, this is the stunt coordinator, this is the the armorer, they re going to describe their course of events, does anybody have any questions. and once there
pyrotechnics or stunts or firearms or anything that could potentially be dangerous, you have a safety meeting at the beginning of the day, and then you have safety meetings throughout the day where the entire crew circles up, we describe what s about to happen, and they might say, well, this is the stunt coordinator, this is the the armorer, they re going to describe their course of events, does anybody have any questions. and once there are no questions and everybody is satisfied that this is totally safe, then we so it sounds as though they did understaff that show based on the other prop master s breakdown. the training, it seems to me, that she was asking for a day, a period of time to train with the actors in gun handling, that s my guess, because it s a little unclear the way she said it. additionally, all reports is there weren t enough or maybe no safety meetings.
that for the audience, you don t believe it is easy for someone with any experience at all, let alone being a master, to confuse a blank with a live round. it s crimped at the end, there is no slug, they feel different. so we would assume that s not what happened. what do you make of her position of blaming the producers? let s put up their statement, or i ll just read it, from her attorneys. hannah was hired for two positions on this film. it made it extremely difficult for her to do her job as an armorer. she fought for training, days to maintain weapons, and proper time to prepare for gunfire, but ultimately was overruled by production and her department. so i talked to a prop master that was offered that job, and he had submitted a budget and a labor outline, and that labor was going to be five people in the prop department to manage all of the props and the guns. and that would include an armorer. now, the producers said, we don t have that kind of money, it s going to be you pl