The Kodak Ad part.2
So I've secured a location. From 9a.m till 3p.m we have use of the Martello Hotels function room. Free of charge. Happy days. We had a chat with the hotel supervisor assured him that we would be in and out, not steal anything, always drink there etc. etc. I don't want to state the bleedin obvious but its vital that you assure anyone your working with, particular supervisors and managers, that 'everything will be okay!'
Now location is all setup but now we have a small problem(again) with actors. Times dont suit. So. I now have two male actors sorted and no females. Roll on Monday and still not in a better situation. So Noel (course lecturer) steps in (again, seeing a pattern here?) and says he can get us an actresses but we have to get the other one. By some piece of divine intervention (or my amazing skill I'm still not sure) I found a girl at 11.30 on Monday night. Thats 9 an a half before we're due to shoot. I do NOT reccomened doing things this way. I got to bed at 12.30. Its going to be a mad day on Tuesday.
Tuesday - Production
Crew met a 8.30a.m down at BIFE. All the gear we needed was being used by the second years over the previous days. We were assured that all gear would be back to us in plenty of time on Tuesday morning. Of course the way these things go the gear didn't turn up until about 9.30am. Myself and a few others headed down to the Martello to get a heads up on clearing the function room and to meet and greet actors.
Now to be honest the shoot itself is a bit of a blur. I do know that we did an incredibly good job as a bunch of first year students, most of who had never been a member of a fully operational film crew. As I was producer I was basiclly a talking clock on set. It helped as it gave the 1st AD one less thing to worry about if I was goin around screaming the time every 10mins. I also got to be the clapper...nuff said! Everyone did a really great job on set. As producer I wanted to make sure not one member of Martello staff had to come up and tell us to feck off, so I made full sure that we were outta there by 3.00pm. The biggest mistake I made with regards production was...FOOD.
We had kinda decided that the crew wouldnt really stop for a lunch break but that idea kinda went to the dogs on the day of the shoot. I regreted that I hadn't provided sanwhiches etc for the crew and cast on the day, be it store bought or homemade. The advantages to doing this would have been:
1)Nobody complaining on set about being hungry
2)When lunch time rolled around everyone would have stayed on set. If you tell someone 'be back in 20mins' you can bet they wont be back for 30mins. Its just human nature.
Movie Making Rule #001 - Always feed your crew
So thats that. Overall a job well done if I do say so myself. I think we all learnt alot. As naff as it all sounds we 'bonded' as a group and I think everyone had a good laugh. The film has been sent off to be developed and I don't care how shite it is I just want something that we can edit. Fingers crossed we did our job rite and we get some good material. We had a good crew so I think we will. I'll slap up an article after we go through post-production. Until then, much thanks to everyone involved especially those who stepped in at the last moment and saved our asses. You know who you are.
Peace
Phil
Now location is all setup but now we have a small problem(again) with actors. Times dont suit. So. I now have two male actors sorted and no females. Roll on Monday and still not in a better situation. So Noel (course lecturer) steps in (again, seeing a pattern here?) and says he can get us an actresses but we have to get the other one. By some piece of divine intervention (or my amazing skill I'm still not sure) I found a girl at 11.30 on Monday night. Thats 9 an a half before we're due to shoot. I do NOT reccomened doing things this way. I got to bed at 12.30. Its going to be a mad day on Tuesday.
Tuesday - Production
Crew met a 8.30a.m down at BIFE. All the gear we needed was being used by the second years over the previous days. We were assured that all gear would be back to us in plenty of time on Tuesday morning. Of course the way these things go the gear didn't turn up until about 9.30am. Myself and a few others headed down to the Martello to get a heads up on clearing the function room and to meet and greet actors.
Now to be honest the shoot itself is a bit of a blur. I do know that we did an incredibly good job as a bunch of first year students, most of who had never been a member of a fully operational film crew. As I was producer I was basiclly a talking clock on set. It helped as it gave the 1st AD one less thing to worry about if I was goin around screaming the time every 10mins. I also got to be the clapper...nuff said! Everyone did a really great job on set. As producer I wanted to make sure not one member of Martello staff had to come up and tell us to feck off, so I made full sure that we were outta there by 3.00pm. The biggest mistake I made with regards production was...FOOD.
We had kinda decided that the crew wouldnt really stop for a lunch break but that idea kinda went to the dogs on the day of the shoot. I regreted that I hadn't provided sanwhiches etc for the crew and cast on the day, be it store bought or homemade. The advantages to doing this would have been:
1)Nobody complaining on set about being hungry
2)When lunch time rolled around everyone would have stayed on set. If you tell someone 'be back in 20mins' you can bet they wont be back for 30mins. Its just human nature.
Movie Making Rule #001 - Always feed your crew
So thats that. Overall a job well done if I do say so myself. I think we all learnt alot. As naff as it all sounds we 'bonded' as a group and I think everyone had a good laugh. The film has been sent off to be developed and I don't care how shite it is I just want something that we can edit. Fingers crossed we did our job rite and we get some good material. We had a good crew so I think we will. I'll slap up an article after we go through post-production. Until then, much thanks to everyone involved especially those who stepped in at the last moment and saved our asses. You know who you are.
Peace
Phil
posted by Phil at 5:11 PM
2 Comments:
oh by the way - can we see the ad - can u put it online somewhere..dan was telling me about it, sounds cool
Yeah if I can clear it with the guys I'll video blog it or something. Maybe put it on the future dan/phil collective website!
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