No, standard procedure on a Professional film set is to set up camera first to capture the gun action/ firing etc, and then crew to withdraw to a safe distance and watch from a monitor.
Also various perspective techniques can be employed to 'not actually have the people filming in the line of fire' .
All this protocol is decades old - borne out of needless deaths and accidents of film crew and actors ...
A blank can fuck you up and kill you, especially some of these really flashy types they cook up. Makes sense to still abide by the rules of firearms whenever there's a combustible object loaded into a working firearm.
Absolutely, don't disagree.
Present time Industry film / safety standards for handling of firearms on professional movie sets is quite extensive with multiple check lists factored in, and 'usually' taken very seriously, much of it has come about by past completely avoidable breaches of common-sense gun safety or actual accidental discharge, malfunction, misfire etc, to the point where one virtually has to go out of their way, purposely and completely ignoring multiple on site redundancies to have - A] A live bullet chambered into a prop gun. B] None of the multiple checks catch it before handed off for use. C] It being fire in such a way it strikes a film crew member.
Don't have a dog in this fight but geebuz rice some of these comments thinking 'its normal practice to fire prop gun blanks deliberately in the direction of working film crew' is something else.
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