Working on location!

28/01/2011

On friday me and my diploma class went on a trip to two different film sets where Don as filming his short 2 minute pragramme made for the iphone.
I found that this was a great experience as we got to meet real actors, directors, photographers, runners, boom operators, camera men, hair and make-up stylists, and A locations Manager. Everyone got split up, and they got to choose what person on set they would like to be with throughout the time we was there. Aaliyah was wth the assistant Director, Shanell was witht eh photographer, Shyanne was with the Camera man, Jessica was with the Make-up artist, Naomi was with Don(the Director) and i was with the Locations manager.
At first i thought staying with Deborah(the locations manager) would be quite boring, but as the day commensed i found that everyone else wasnt having half the amount of funj i was having with my partner. My first job was to go to starbucks for a man who owned one of the shops that the programme was being filmed, i still remember i got him a Latte with whole milk. After i fetched him his Latte, me and Deborah made our way to our next film scene. We had lond convosations about how she had to pick out all by herself the locations that the scenes were being shot, and once she had found a place to shoot a scene she would comfirm it with Don. She also has to make sure everyone eats and has the right equipment.
  At one point also me and Deborah went out and found a cafe where we had to order 30 sandwiches for everyone. the options were limited so people could only have white bread, either cheese, ham, or tuna, and it had no butter in it. me and my peers left before Deborah went to go and pick up the sandwiches later on.
  I learnt a lot on that day. I learnt about how a real film scene has to  be set out to make it look realistic, what props they have to use, how many different angles they have to take in just 'one' scene, i also learnt that theres many more people behind the scenes that are important so that everything goes to plan. There are pictures of our day out on location but unfortunately i don't have them right now so I'm going to post them in my next blog.