THE SHOOT DAY 1

THE SHOOT DAY 1

Wow! The first day of the shoot went so well! I arrived with Ruby who was my 2nd Assistant Director  at 8:30AM for the shoot…

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SCHEDULE READ THROUGH WITH 2ND ASSISTANT DIRECTOR

SCHEDULE READ THROUGH WITH 2ND ASSISTANT DIRECTOR

My First Assistant Director will not be able to be there on the first shooting day, so my Second Assistant Director, Ruby will be taking…

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CHAPTER HEADING PAINTINGS

CHAPTER HEADING PAINTINGS

I found doing these Chapter heading paintings quite difficult and it was quite an emotional process to get myself into the head space of each…

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FINALISING THE SCHEDULE

FINALISING THE SCHEDULE

Julia, my 1st Assistant Director and I made the shooting schedule yesterday as I said, but I organised a meeting with my Director of Photography…

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MAKING AND SENDING OUT CALL SHEETS

MAKING AND SENDING OUT CALL SHEETS

I really enjoyed Producing this shoot and it really taught me a lot about the more organisational and ‘non-creative’ aspects of filmmaking. I had made…

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SORTING INSURANCE

SORTING INSURANCE

My Director of Photography has to hire a lot of kit for the shoot and so I had to buy Insurance for the shoot to…

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FORMATTING THE HARDDRIVES

FORMATTING THE HARDDRIVES

So for this shoot, I am DITing. This essentially means data wrangling the information and making sure that all of the rushes (footage) is transferred…

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MY FINAL SHOTLIST

MY FINAL SHOTLIST

When I finished the updated treatment, I decided it would be a good idea to make my own shot list, with all the information I…

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SPRAY PAINT CHAIN

SPRAY PAINT CHAIN

So I decided that it would way too expensive to buy real chain for the Shame chapter scene, so I found that the cheapest way…

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MEETING WITH DOP AND ASSISTANT DIRECTOR RE PRELIMINARY SCHEDULE

MEETING WITH DOP AND ASSISTANT DIRECTOR RE PRELIMINARY SCHEDULE

So my assistant director and I decided to jump on a Zoom call with the DOP Charlie to check over the preliminary schedule to make…

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