Temping at my dream job...
First of all - I didn’t get the Film London job. Which is fine, my job is out there waiting for me.
…wow, that sounded optimistic.
The LVJ shoot though - has been fantastic.
I did the night shoot/early hours next day on Thursday and the day time until next morning on Friday. First place was the control tower/radar room at Heathrow. Lots of security but much fun was had. And this feature may be low budget but my god; the way it was shot was beautiful. Everyone kept joking that it’d fit in with ‘24’
Then yesterday we were an airbase up near Colchester which - fighter planes and hangers, so beautiful and unbelievable how the producer managed to get these locations.
Throughout the two days I got very snap happy with my trusty Pentax. At first I was just taking a couple of pics like most of the crew were to show people to say ‘look where I was!’ but then the producer said he’d like some more behind scenes ones - so, whenever I had a spare second… three rolls in total in the two days.
But - I didn’t neglect my role and helped out pretty much in every department.
So. The locations were amazing, the actors fantastic and really fun to be around and I got to see again crew from last time whom I got on really well with and they were happy to see me again, not to mention meeting the new crew too.
Also; I think I’m getting better at the technical stuff on location as the D.P was saying that he was glad I was there again because I know what I’m doing with lights.
For those that didn’t know, haven’t experienced my ‘skills’ in that area. I’ve always considered lighting as the thing I am crap at.
So the film has finished its shooting. It is low budget and has been going for about five years. Everyone involved has been doing this over time with their day time media jobs doing promo films and whatever and has been a labour of love it would appear.
But it looks amazing and really high budget. I’ve seen some of the special effects things from helicopters going over a scene, explosions to space ships. I’m really impressed.
They’ve been editing and doing their CG stuff as they went along so hopefully won’t have to wait too long for it to come out. There is even a comic book tie in coming out. Like with what they did for X-Men.
Mark Producer/Actor/Occasional Sound Operator - was so happy yesterday.
Eating biscuits, chocolate and laughing because he doesn’t have to watch what he’s eating anymore and joked he was going to shave his head to get rid of the Hugh Grant hair. It only then dawned on me that some of the actors have had to maintain their look for a long time.
All in all good experience and hope to work with them again, who knows it might even be on a different film.
: )
…wow, that sounded optimistic.
The LVJ shoot though - has been fantastic.
I did the night shoot/early hours next day on Thursday and the day time until next morning on Friday. First place was the control tower/radar room at Heathrow. Lots of security but much fun was had. And this feature may be low budget but my god; the way it was shot was beautiful. Everyone kept joking that it’d fit in with ‘24’
Then yesterday we were an airbase up near Colchester which - fighter planes and hangers, so beautiful and unbelievable how the producer managed to get these locations.
Throughout the two days I got very snap happy with my trusty Pentax. At first I was just taking a couple of pics like most of the crew were to show people to say ‘look where I was!’ but then the producer said he’d like some more behind scenes ones - so, whenever I had a spare second… three rolls in total in the two days.
But - I didn’t neglect my role and helped out pretty much in every department.
So. The locations were amazing, the actors fantastic and really fun to be around and I got to see again crew from last time whom I got on really well with and they were happy to see me again, not to mention meeting the new crew too.
Also; I think I’m getting better at the technical stuff on location as the D.P was saying that he was glad I was there again because I know what I’m doing with lights.
For those that didn’t know, haven’t experienced my ‘skills’ in that area. I’ve always considered lighting as the thing I am crap at.
So the film has finished its shooting. It is low budget and has been going for about five years. Everyone involved has been doing this over time with their day time media jobs doing promo films and whatever and has been a labour of love it would appear.
But it looks amazing and really high budget. I’ve seen some of the special effects things from helicopters going over a scene, explosions to space ships. I’m really impressed.
They’ve been editing and doing their CG stuff as they went along so hopefully won’t have to wait too long for it to come out. There is even a comic book tie in coming out. Like with what they did for X-Men.
Mark Producer/Actor/Occasional Sound Operator - was so happy yesterday.
Eating biscuits, chocolate and laughing because he doesn’t have to watch what he’s eating anymore and joked he was going to shave his head to get rid of the Hugh Grant hair. It only then dawned on me that some of the actors have had to maintain their look for a long time.
All in all good experience and hope to work with them again, who knows it might even be on a different film.
: )