I'd suspected there were fringe cases where a real gun would do better. Like Kubrick used custom built light amplifying lenses for Barry Lyndon to be able to shoot with real candles as the only light source.
There could be an exemption for rare cases. Doesn't break the rule.
BTW, what's "rotoscoping". A search gave me an impression, but not a real definition. It also turned up a Flickr page with the tag "small penis" as fifth result on the first page.
It seems to have very little to do with sound, but everything with video.
Blaming the idiots isn't a solution. These are the first people you should take into account. If you don't, you belong to the same group.
blaming people responsible is pretty routine.
I'm currently consulting about garden tools (chainsaws, lawn mowers...) in a medium size govt operation. The damage they do is considerable. The very first analysis showed it was always the same workers, in the same circumstances.
Can't kill themselves twice. If they don't learn from touching the hot stove the first time they may be incorrigible. Or do you mean the same kind of uneducated, untrained people? If the same one person repeatedly has accidents you would be doing him a favor by firing him (or her).
I recall as a child having a school friend with a younger brother who cut off the tip of his finger with a running lawnmower blade. It was odd his finger nail grew back on the bottom side of his finger. Decades later while working at peavey I learned about a dealer who died after his riding lawn mower tipped over on him. It seems like common sense to have respect for power cutting tools, but common sense is not all that common as you have found.
Modern power tools are safer. I have made a lot of sawdust with my recent Stihl chainsaw and I love it. It has an anti kickback design and a safety blade brake. Much safer than my old POS chainsaw it replaced. My biggest concern now is getting the big trees to fall in the desired direction. Modern lawnmowers have safety cut offs you have to work to defeat.
So the solution was very simple: give those who don't cause accidents a certificate and prevent the others from working with these dangerous tools. I also added nobody should work with these motorised tools in the rain, as almost 90% of the accidents happened in, or just after rainy weather. It's far too soon to draw results, but after a year, only one accident was reported. And that was caused by a certificate-less worker, just by starting the chainsaw.
Do supervisors put them to work in the rain?
Of course, you need a carrot to guide the donkey. There's a monthly bonus for certificate holders. If the workers don't follow safety rules, they loose that certificate and the attached bonus.
I hear that some US cities are experimenting with paying criminals to not commit crimes. That seems a little perverted but when spending money is the goto hammer in your toolbox every problem looks like a "throw money at it" nail.
If your policy of rewarding safe workers reduces your insurance bill that sounds like an economical win-win... good job.
Accidents with those kind of tools cost the insurance over a million a year, rising the price of the policy on a yearly basis. Nobody ever got killed, but about a dozen a year went to hospital in a workforce of about a hundred.
worker safety is important and we must be alert to perverse incentives. Back in the 60s I had a coop job working as a QC inspector in a heavy metal factory. They did a lot of small piece work using cut off saws. There were always a couple of old workers around missing the odd finger from cutoff accidents. Even using machinery with two hand safety buttons (machine doesn't work unless both hands are on a button), they would figure out ways to cheat the machine safeties, like resting an elbow on one button to regain use of that hand to guide in parts faster. I blame that they were paid piece work (by the number they cut) making them highly motivated to work faster than was safe. I don't think they were paying piece work at that factory in the 60s. The workers probably got injured decades earlier at other workplaces. I was not aware of any accidents while I was working there but heard stories. They also had huge presses for compressing powdered metal into shapes before sintering (cooking to bind the metal together). Those presses were reportedly finger eaters but all had the two button safeties.
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Perhaps all the publicity surrounding this high profile movie set shooting will bring some awareness to the blatant safety deficiencies involved. I can imagine some scriptwriters already working on a movie about it.
Maybe Alec can play himself, he would be perfect for that part. It is ironic that the movie "Rust" is reportedly about an "accidental" shooting death.
JR
