Michael Neal: Crew, location scout and stunt performer in Savannah, Georgia.

Michael Neal
Union - join or not ... I am a…

Union - join or not ... I am a marine coordinator in Savannah GA. Your thoughts?

Sandra Elise Williams

Glad to hear that you investigated and determined the best path for yourself. I'll be card carrying, too. I hope we cross paths & get to work on a project together. I'll let you know when we premier Untouched and have you attend if you're available. Here's to the Pirate Project!

Michael Neal

Thanks everyone for their input on this.

Michael Neal

I know this is an old post but just wanted those in this group that I just wrapped my first department head job as the Marine Coordinator on Anchorman 2, as a member of IATSE 491

Michael Neal
Marine Coordinator and Water Safety Professional - Mike Neal

Hello All,

My name is Mike Neal and I provide marine coordination and water safety for film and television.

I have worked large and small productions. If you have any water work in your project be sure to use someone with e...

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Michael Neal
Marine Coordinator and Water Safety Professional

My name is Mike Neal, I am a marine coordinator and water safety specialist. I am a member of both IATSE and SAG. If your project involves water, let me know if I cam be of assistance.

Tasha Lewis

Welcome! Visit project page!

Helen Wentland

Hi Jake, Thanks for the invitation.

Michael Neal

Thanks for the request...if I ever can help on water based needs let me know

Jake

You're welcome! It's a pleasure to have you both in my network of professionals!

Michael Neal

Hey Kelly, thanks for the request...if you ever have water based needs, drop me a line

Michael Neal

Jack, thanks for the invite. I am a marine / water safety coordinator and crew. Let me know if you have any water based needs in your projects.

Michael Neal

Thanks for the request....If you have any water needs just let me know.

Michael Neal

I actually had to make waves in the movie "Savannah"...and in Anchorman2 they wanted me to stop the waves...:)

Kevin Coan

hey Mahlon, thanks for connecting - I can't make waves but I could introduce them

Mahlon Glenn Yeager

Thanks Guys - Great connecting with you!

Michael Neal

Hey Robert...Let me know if you have any water related needs or questions

Robert Leslie Fallin

Will do, Michael.

Michael Neal
Marine and Water Safety Coordinator

Hello All... I'm Mike Neal. I provide marine coordination and water safety for film and television. I have worked with independent and major studio productions. I have over 20 years of experience on or under the water. I have lived and traveled all over the world and would love to work on your next project.

Dawn Gonchar

Welcome Michael!

Amanda Toney

What an interesting job you have, Michael! You're definitely in the right place to make connections and find opportunities all over the world- best of luck to you!

Michael Neal

Thanks- Looking forward to connecting and finding opportunities

Michael Neal

Thanks for the invite to connect...if you ever need marine coordination or water safety just let me know.

Michael Neal

Thanks for the connection if you ever need a marine coordinator -boat support just let me know...love to travel

Michael Neal

Based in Savannah GA but will travel for work

Michael Neal

Have connections for water safety and underwater videography in the Atlanta and Athens area

Jeremy Oliver Miller

Thanks Michael... Im never on this site so sorry for the delay. I will keep that in mind for future projects. Cheers!

Michael Neal
On Set Safety - Who is responsible?

As many of you know there was a tragic accident in our industry last week with the death of 2nd camera assistant Sarah Jones and the injury of multiple crew when filming on a train trestle. This post is not to discuss this accident, it is to start a discussion on who is responsible for safety on a s...

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Michael Neal

Worked this time....was not doing anything when I first tried

Richard "RB" Botto

Perfect.

Sarah Prewitt

I agree safety on set is very important.

Deirdre Oreilly
In memoriam of a fallen colleague

hello friends, many of you may have heard of the senseless death of a young (27 years!) camera assistant working on the film "midnight rider" in savannah, ga.. this tragedy appears to have been caused by someone trying to save a buck. we are outraged by the lack of professionalism by the production...

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Deirdre Oreilly

good for you! it's great to see how many people responded :)

Richard "RB" Botto

Sure you guys checked out Shaun O'Banion's blog on this subject. Just excellent. I'll have some follow up articles in my weekend blog as well. Stay tuned.

Deirdre Oreilly

anyone interested in discussion should check out this link as well https://www.facebook.com/groups/sarahsafety/

Angelina Carkic

Thanks. Good idea.

Angelina Carkic

I agree with having someone down the line, but other people on the track did not get injured. It was a freak accident that the piece of the bedding hit her onto the track. Had she been a little faster or a little slower it may not have happened. I am extremely sorry that she lost her life. But we cannot foresee where lightning strikes.

Neill Watson

The more I read about this the more I'm astounded if the facts are as stated. Even on the simplest car photo shoot with stills or video we ALWAYS have a safety brief, even if we've worked together man...

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Angelina Carkic

That's what I was thinking. Can't believe a producer could be that stupid, or even someone else on the crew.

Michael Neal

Angelina, I believe you now see the error of your original post but I will state that it was the producers and 1st AD's responsibility for the safety of the crew. It is actually very lucky that the director, crew and cast (William Hurt) was not killed in this accident.

Angelina Carkic

Hi Michael. I don't know that it was an error. It was my perception from the limited information in the original post that had me comment. Now with all the feedback I have a better understanding what happened. Included in this is my sincere regret that anyone would get hurt on a shoot. Here in Austr...

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Michael Neal

Angelina, this event happen in my town and I know many of the people involved. It is a mystery that keeps unraveling. I suggest you google the articles about it and see how the reports changed.

Michael Neal

Thank you Shaun for writing this article. I am a Marine Coordinator / Water Safety Coordinator, safety is the primary reason I am hired on a production. The producers, UPM, and 1st AD failed to do their jobs on this film. We have to keep safety as the priority when working in this industry. I believ...

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Michael Neal

Custom slate for "Slates for Sarah"?

Todd Collins

Hi Michael. We can do just about anything. Was there something you had in mind? We can print on the inside of the sticks (between the two sticks), I was thinking we could add a tribute to her there so that it would be in sight of all that use the slates.

Michael Neal

Think this would be great for the industry

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