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30 DGA QUARTERLY Cover sets are handy during unpredictable weather, but some- times they're useful on a clear day. "We were shooting the Warrior Falls set for a few days and it was gorgeous outside," recalls 1st AD Lisa C. Satriano during production of Ryan Coogler's Black Panther. "Two of the actors started complaining about their vision. It turns out they were standing at an angle where the lights were reflecting through the water and into their eyes." The actors were safely taken off set, but because they had key roles in the scene, Satriano had to get creative. "There were [cover sets] that we could go to," she says, "I had to assess each one." Satriano knew she was on the clock. "It was kind of a big deal because Warrior Falls was three-to-four hours of one kind of makeup for the actors and we had to move all of the equipment inside," says Satriano. "Luckily, we had the right actors around to shoot another scene." The shoot went indoors and the production was back on schedule. "The unforeseen sometimes happens," says Satriano. "You've got to have things in your back pocket at all times." —BRANDON KYLE GOCO 1st AD Rebecca Strickland considers her job to be similar in some ways to customer service. "You have to be super patient [but] still strong to get done what you need to get done," she says. In other words, "You have to be able to dance with your director and DP." Prepping and locations scouting with Matthew Weiner on Amazon's The Romanoffs—a show that filmed all over the world—was logistically challenging for Strickland. One episode involved a character embarking on a cruise, which meant filming on a real-life cruise ship in international wa- ters. "We had to organize with the cruise company, figure out how to get everybody onto the ship—there was TSA, all this stuff," she explains. Because the production wanted to film in the main atri- um of the ship, they were only able to access it late at night. "We could take possession of the main area and we could shoot from 11:00 p.m. to like 6:30 in the morning," Strickland says. "I had to figure out how to—when we scheduled it, when we had day work to be done—make the clock work." The globe-trotting continued throughout all of filming, says Strickland. "It's a lot of frequent flyer miles." —BECCA NADLER Piling Up Frequent Flyer Miles for The Romanoffs Rebecca Strickland | 1st AD Scaling Black Panther to Epic Proportions Lisa C. Satriano | 1st AD PHOTOS: (TOP) MARCIE REVENS; (BOTTOM) TRICIA NOBLE At Work With FOCUS