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I heard a gaffer buddy of mine explain it to an extra one time: “Outside there’s a big box on a truck. It’s full of light. The light runs through these hoses and shoots out of the fixtures. My job is to make sure a kink doesn’t develop in the hose ’cause it will swell up and explode, and light will go everywhere.”

On a BBC drama series, there was one particular actor who insisted on always looking through the camera, much to the annoyance of the DP. We cured this one by closing the shutter and smearing the eyepiece with black makeup. Obviously, he couldn’t see a thing so I explained that you had to rotate the eyepiece to open the shutter… He went through a complete rehearsal, no realizing while the whole crew - including the director - were killing themselves laughing at him.