Week 6

The past week seemed quite busy and very vague to me, plenty of production meetings for Little Clown. On Thursday the camera department had a brief meeting with Ray. He went through each of our roles and jobs we need to do. Being the 2ND AC I thought I wouldn't have much to do no I was wrong. One thing about this role I'm not happy with is there is not one single creative input I can give. My job includes charging batteries, setting up the tripod back focusing, slating and making the kit accessible to the crew which includes bringing kit to the crew if needed. I believe the input I give will make the production run more smoothly. Anyway it is an assessment so I will do the best of my abilities. Ray and Co are testing us all to see if we can cope with the responsibilities we each have and to do a successful job.
Last week was a tutorial with Andy, it went well I always feel encouraged. Issues I had was my critical thinking, I haven't been blogging recently on the films I have watched, I need to pick up the pace and start blogging, practice makes perfect. My editing skills need to improve, I did a terrible job of the exercise with Melissa's Mail. My shots cut together but not skillfully. I am thinking in getting a tutorial with Gavin.

We finished the first part of the moodle assessment on The not very enjoyable Last Picture Show. But we started the second part of the assessment to see if we would re-make it my answer was no I go into to detail on moodle. Interesting experience wish I had been moodling earlier rather than the day before the deadline.

We had lots of production meetings with Abigail that week the Little Clown producers were more involved. I found it interesting how to schedule and so on. To me the producers have a large responsibility on their hands for example they need to find a 5 year old juggling child actor. (enough said I think)

We had Andy also that week he was talking about the rise of the high concept movie in starting from the late 60s. My own opinion on high concept movies are they may not be deep and thoughtful or win Oscars but they make millions.

It has been an enjoyable week but I am looking forward to the summer holidays, even though I have not been incredibly busy I feel burnt out.