What are the most tricky things you have to deal with on a day-to-day basis?
It’s a challenge because it’s never straightforward. Each episode has its own challenges. We used to say ‘problems’ but we decided we were using that word too much.
Some episodes, for instance, can be very heavy CGI (computer-generated images). We’ve done episodes that cost over two hundred thousand dollars just CGI.
Other episodes are very heavy in prosthetics - the designing of the prosthetics, the sculpting of them and the making of them. It’s not just a question of making one thing. If you’ve got a principal [actor] and then you’ve got a stunt man who doubles him and then maybe they work four days… You start multiplying this with the number of prosthetics that you actually need and it can become huge.
Also, you then get into a tremendous number of make-up guys. We’ve had as many as 44 make-up people on an episode. Two episodes ago (Bargaining parts one and two) we had ten demons fighting with the Scooby gang, which is seven people. So, there’s 17 principles and each of them has a double, so you start multiplying this by the number of make-ups you need and it gets huge.
What are the most tricky things you have to deal with on a day-to-day basis?
