Shoot

For the shoot, I assisted with lots of different aspects of it. Most of the time I was the clapper for the camera, which was not something I had ever done before so I watched a lot of youtube tutorials on how to do it properly. We had a slate taken out of the equipment hire department and I used masking tape to correctly write down the numbers and changed them with every new take. I pre-prepared all of the numbers and letters I was going to require and set them all out, to minimise the time it would take up between each new take. I also kept a list of which shot we were doing and taped it to the back of the slate so that I could keep up with where we were up to, and could let the director/AD or producer or any of the crew know if they asked.

We spent a lot of time marking out where we were going to be moving the dolly by using masking tape on the floor, so that we could ensure consistency in our shots, and in addition to this we used masking tape again for the where the chairs were placed in different areas for different parts of the film. This enabled us to keep up the continuity of the shots. We also had different lighting set ups for each act.

Overall I think the shoot went really well. It was so interesting and rewarding being a part of a film crew and seeing how all the different areas people were working on came together to create something we had made up, and have an actual result from nothing.
In addition to this I learned a lot of really valuable skills such as how important communication on set it, and working things out together. Because everyone comes from such different backgrounds we had a lot of different ideas and which was great as we were able to use all these different ideas to make things work.