of America, the Hollywood unions are both a blessing and a curse. For over a hundred years, American filmmakers organize into unions, and who is not a member of a union may not work well for a big studio production. To become a member of a "Union", will be necessary to prove that you have mastered his job and to keep a minimum number of days of shooting already worked out non-union jobs are welcome.
there for all a trade union: The union of the grip, the grip people, the sound crew, the make-up people, the driver ("Teamsters"), the directors ("Directors Guild of America"), the screenwriters ("Writers Guild of America") and the actor ("Screen Actors Guild"). In contrast to pure interest groups that exist in Germany, have the unions in Hollywood but a great power, as the strike showed the writers some years ago. Union representatives come back regularly on the set and see if the rights of their "brothers" are observed.
The departments are strictly defined, and each may only do the work for which he is qualified - a difference here.
For example, if the director's chair is on a cable, so the director can not even bring out the cable under the chair leg, but have to ask an electrician to do it for him. If the camera does not fit over a desk, do the dolly grip the desk does not move itself, but must ask the set dresser for it. Logical, right?
In Hollywood nobody would come in a dream to ask the government why trainees to get a cable that is in Germany the rule. And an electrician would never want to move a vase on the window sill himself - simply because he is not qualified for flower vases.
An anecdote: shooting day, morning, 8.50 clock. According to planning work beginning at 9:00 clock. My boss and I wanted to "get drilled" a hole through a wooden wall to where a cable to be able to create. So we went to a grip man, and asked him to drill a hole through the wooden wall. This suggests, however, at the clock and said that work was beginning at 9 clock. So he read for ten minutes more in his newspaper, stood up to point 9 and drilled the hole.
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