Oren Kaplan

I'm a director, visual effects artist, host of @JustShootItPod, and an engineer in my past life.

[Oren Kaplan @smiteypieleg]

@JosephKahn Maybe it’s changed recently, but 3 years ago my wife was literally touching Rebel Wilson in a spot that I directed. She was identifiable and in the foreground, but SAG told her she didn’t qualify for an upgrade because she wasn’t interacting with or reacting to the product.

[Oren Kaplan @smiteypieleg]

@JosephKahn But don’t trust me. Go to the source: https://t.co/WJtxHLwZGt

[Oren Kaplan @smiteypieleg]

@JosephKahn One horror story they’ve heard. The default in commercial world is that if anything smells remotely legally risky, just tell people not to do it. If an extra is drinking a Pepsi and smiling and getting a closeup, of course they should be bumped. But bg in a party scene… nah.

[Oren Kaplan @smiteypieleg]

@JosephKahn Both as a director who has to deal with this on every shoot lately and as a person married to a SAG actor (who has NOT been bumped up even though she was very identifiable in a national spot and interacting with the celebrity in it) this is a very frustrating misinterpretation.

[Oren Kaplan @smiteypieleg]

@JosephKahn This is an absolutely untrue thing that for some reason all agency producers seem to believe is true. SAG requires three items for an upgrade: the extra must be identifiable, in the foreground, and they must “demonstrate or illustrate the product or service or react to it”.

[Oren Kaplan @smiteypieleg]

@JosephKahn 100% agree.

Yes, it’s insanely expensive and incredibly competitive — but there’s a reason people at the top of their game live and work here.

If we can convince the non-film residents and the city government to actually support production here, it would come roaring back.

[Oren Kaplan @smiteypieleg]

@ATT 48 hours of downtime on your fiber Internet to my house & business with no realistic updates on when it will be fixed. I asked the service rep if I need to switch to Spectrum to get my Internet back and she said, “sure.” 🤷

[Oren Kaplan @smiteypieleg]

I’m really not enjoying all these new party-invite platforms having my phone number.

[heidi mihelich @cre8ivenergy]

@Target your new Cuddle Collab commercial is my dog’s new favorite program!

[Ad Age @adage]

Gary Sinise channels his inner potato for Pluto TV. https://t.co/CqYja1BMm8

[Oren Kaplan @smiteypieleg]

@ramblingfilm It wasn’t!

[Oren Kaplan @smiteypieleg]

@Delta This is our man!

[Oren Kaplan @smiteypieleg]

@Delta we have a first officer that’s supposed to deadhead on our flight, can you approve him to work on our flight??? We’d get 100+ people home! His name is Tien Phung and he will save our entire flight. #asapplease

[Oren Kaplan @smiteypieleg]

@Delta give us wings!!!

[Oren Kaplan @smiteypieleg]

@codyoliver

[Oren Kaplan @smiteypieleg]

@Delta we’re going on a 10 hour delay because of your software malfunction and you’re not even giving a meal voucher for the hundreds of people waiting at the gate. Let alone booking them on other flights.

[Oren Kaplan @smiteypieleg]

@j_baura

[Oren Kaplan @smiteypieleg]

You guys have 50 flights that are being timed out because you only have half the flight crew you need.. so everyone is just waiting for nonexistent crew to show up. Wouldn’t it make sense to combine all of these half flight crews and at least get half the flights out???

[Oren Kaplan @smiteypieleg]

@OliviaTeague1

[Oren Kaplan @smiteypieleg]

@atlmanii_

[Oren Kaplan @smiteypieleg]

You know this flight is going to time out but you’re dragging hundreds of people along.