The On Location Education Blog
Day In The Life: Set Teacher
Introducing our new blog series, Day In The Life, where we follow a member of the OLE community through a day of educating young artists.
QUIET ON THE SET CAN WAIT; SAFETY FIRST!
From offices to oil fields, workers everywhere have the right to expect conditions to be as safe as possible for their given workspaces; for child actors, expectations are even higher. Set life may sound glamorous, but despite the best efforts of production companies and entertainment industry professionals, unscrupulous and unsavory people sometimes manage to get past established safety checks and endanger young performers (not to mention the entire cast and crew). Early summer of 2015 saw a spate of incidents with studio teacher impostors, putting performers, production companies, and parents on high alert. The obvious question is: How does this happen?