Jimmy Preston's War Story From Andrew W. Bofinger

For my war story I interviewed Andrew Bofinger he has worked as an Art Director for many short films, commercials, record companies, and feature films. Andrew told me a couple of war stories. The first of which I will tell you about is when he was working as an Art director on a film and the director of the film originally wanted a metal furnace built that looked rusty, so Andrew and his team built the furnace to look rusty, but 5 minutes before the shooting began the director changes his mind and wanted it to look more like concrete and wanted it to be plastered, but plaster takes 24 hours to dry. Andrew didn't share with me how that particular bad day ended.

Andrew's second war story he told me that he actually feared that he was going to get fired because he messed up so bad. The director wanted to set the scene up as a starving artist that is barely making it, so Andrew set the scene up with an old vinyl record player with sort of a old school musical look, the director absolutely hated because his vision was that the characters place has all the top of the line equipment need to make music in his apartment, but that he was struggle finiancially because he has spent all of his money on this equipment that he can't live that well and barely eat. Andrew told me that the production had to be halted for an hour and a half, not the mention the director was very upset about the whole situation. He told me the him and his team were blowing up the phones trying to find anyone who would rent recording equipment out. Andrew said the he was literally just sitting and waiting for the director to fire him. He called it the worst day he has ever had on set, but in the end they were able to finish the project on time and he did not get fired.

Andrew also said that most of the bad things that happen on set stem from last minute changes to the script or the director changing his mind about a specific thing, so to work in this business you gotta learn to roll with the punches and keep your composer when something changes all of a sudden and your put in a tight squeeze because if you can't then you will never make it in this business.