Angel by the Numbers

[xaphania]

Saw this on Whedonesque, interesting essay.

In May of 1999, I stood 6 feet, one inch tall and weighed almost 195 pounds, a good 20 pounds over my "fighting weight." Back then I had sandy brown hair and blue eyes, my eyesight was 20/20 and my home phone number was xxx-xxx-8881. It was that phone that rang with an offer to work on an upcoming television series called Angel. (I had a cell phone but it rarely rang. Mostly because I rarely turned it on.) The show was a spin-off of Buffy the Vampire Slayer, a TV show I'd never seen and knew little about. Since the main character on Angel was in fact not a foxy actress but a man, and not only a man but a vampire (vampires mean lots of all-night shooting), it was with some trepidation that I accepted the position of Assistant Chief Lighting Technician ("Best Boy"). Since then, some pertinent numbers have accumulated.

I have worked on all 110 episodes of Angel. That's 8 shooting days per episode for 22 episodes and 176 shooting days per season for 5 seasons, for a total of 880 shooting days. Add to that 80 prep days and 55 wrap days. Subtract 6 missed days, one due to illness and 5 just because I wanted a long weekend in Vegas or wine country, and that gives Angel and me 1,010 days together at an average of 13.5 paid hours per day. An average of 15.5 hours elapse from the time I drag myself out of bed to the time I crawl back in.

http://www.smartpopbooks.com/708

 

[Kean]

That was kind of wonderful.

 

[Chosen Enemy]

My brain can't contain all of those numbers. A summary would be nice 😀

 

[VisionGirl]

I love the Gunn Light, and this: A total of 18 minutes were lost because the entire cast could not stop laughing during their first rehearsal with the Angel Muppet.

Production Designer Stuart Blatt created a Kelly Manners bobble-head doll and has managed to sneak it into 6 episodes

Has anybody seen this?

The entire cast and crew of Angel did not miss the irony of the WB Network discontinuing our vampire show to make room for another vampire show (Dark Shadows).

Oh wow. Bastards.

There is one Joss Whedon.

There is one David Greenwalt.

Makes me smile. 🙂

This was obviously written before the finale aired, and before Andy Hallett's death.
Is this from that book featured on the page (Five Seasons of Angel)? Has anybody read it and is it good?

 

[caritas08]

I was just about to post this. Thanks for beating me to it!!!

I can't believe their production hours.

 

[VisionGirl]

Comments on this post
[MENTION=8214]caritas08[/MENTION] agrees: In "House Always Wins" a member of the audience is holding the bobble head in his lap while Lorne is singing in Vegas.

I'm on season 3 in my rewatch, so I'll be sure to look for that when I get there.