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The #SetLife
Handbook

A guidebook for crew — on set, and in the life.

First Edition · V1.5

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The Seven

  1. Safety is the only non-negotiable.
  2. Be the calm, not the quiet. Positivity is not compliance.
  3. Even the masters are still students. Listen first.
  4. Every problem has a next physical action. Do that one.
  5. Their gear is your gear. Their day is your day.
  6. This is a privilege. It is not a debt.
  7. It's only art. Nothing here is worth a body.

Half field guide, half grounding book. The stop-work script you should know cold. The drive home nobody puts on a call sheet. What to do when you screw up. Where to go when it's bigger than a bad day. And why you got into this in the first place.

Written for the PA on their third day and the operator with forty years. Both need the same seven things — one needs them explained, the other needs them remembered.

Dedicated to

Mark Milsome. Halyna Hutchins. Sarah Jones. Brent Hershman. Conway Wickliffe. And every crew member who didn't get to go home.

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If there's a hazard, a protocol, a hard-won lesson or a correction that isn't in here, tell us and it goes into the next edition. And if there's someone you want to pay tribute to, send us their name.
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Created by Montgomery Fisher, SOC
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