Production: Sourcing Crew
During our 'Pre-Production' phase, I had only managed to source a camera assistant and a production assistant. I still needed to source a sound assistant, photographer and a make up artist.
Sound Assistant:
I asked around at university to try and find out who was confident in operating sound and came to a few options. After reviewing their blogs and their work, I liaised with the rest of my team, including the assistants and chose to ask Jemma Cottrell if she would be the sound assistant for our group. We asked what Jemma was most comfortable recording with and whether she could confidently use a Tascam as that is what we had originally planned to use. Jemma was more confident in recording with a Zoom and therefore we chose to adapt our equipment list as making sure we had strong, clean sound was a bigger priority than using a piece of equipment that Jemma wasn't as confident on.
When we tested our set design and had a meeting with all our assistants, it was important to me to make sure that we had a good rapport and gelled well as a team. If we didn't work well together then it would make the filming process a lot harder and less enjoyable. Plus, the easier we got on together, the nicer and more professional the environment would be for our cast. Jemma fitted in well with the rest of the crew and is a huge asset to have on the Young & Famous team.
Photographer
I messaged a photographer I knew and who I also helped to find work through a previous year, to see if he would be interested in being the photographer for our project. He said he was keen to help but he would have to charge us a fee and the last project he did for UCA was a lot of hours work for just travel expenses. I spoke with the rest of the team before confirming anything with this photographer to see what they thought. We worried that Nick would be too expensive for our budget, but I have no doubt he would have done a great job. We spoke about what we would actually want from a photographer because we are designing the Poster for the show ourselves and the photos for the title sequence we green screened and took back at the meet and greet. Therefore we would only need a photographer to take photos on set on our busiest days, for our hand in and promotions on social media.
Becca has a family friend who does photography as a hobby. She has agreed to do our behind the scenes photography for free! This works out much better for us as we save on budget and we can also trust their reliability to get what we want.
Makeup
Originally we did have a makeup artist who was all set and ready to help us with our project, but unfortunately she had to pull out last minute due to health problems. This didn't leave me with enough time to source a replacement for our shoot week in February. For our studio shoot in March she brought her makeup along to be the makeup artist for the cast, however she didn't turn up in time to complete the makeup before we needed to have started shooting. Our cast pre-wore makeup to the shoot in case Megan was unavailable, so our project didn't suffer on this behalf.
There is a more detailed blog describing what happened regarding makeup and what I did to try and overcome this issue. The blog is titled: Production: Makeup.
Sound Assistant:
I asked around at university to try and find out who was confident in operating sound and came to a few options. After reviewing their blogs and their work, I liaised with the rest of my team, including the assistants and chose to ask Jemma Cottrell if she would be the sound assistant for our group. We asked what Jemma was most comfortable recording with and whether she could confidently use a Tascam as that is what we had originally planned to use. Jemma was more confident in recording with a Zoom and therefore we chose to adapt our equipment list as making sure we had strong, clean sound was a bigger priority than using a piece of equipment that Jemma wasn't as confident on.
When we tested our set design and had a meeting with all our assistants, it was important to me to make sure that we had a good rapport and gelled well as a team. If we didn't work well together then it would make the filming process a lot harder and less enjoyable. Plus, the easier we got on together, the nicer and more professional the environment would be for our cast. Jemma fitted in well with the rest of the crew and is a huge asset to have on the Young & Famous team.
Photographer
I messaged a photographer I knew and who I also helped to find work through a previous year, to see if he would be interested in being the photographer for our project. He said he was keen to help but he would have to charge us a fee and the last project he did for UCA was a lot of hours work for just travel expenses. I spoke with the rest of the team before confirming anything with this photographer to see what they thought. We worried that Nick would be too expensive for our budget, but I have no doubt he would have done a great job. We spoke about what we would actually want from a photographer because we are designing the Poster for the show ourselves and the photos for the title sequence we green screened and took back at the meet and greet. Therefore we would only need a photographer to take photos on set on our busiest days, for our hand in and promotions on social media.
Becca has a family friend who does photography as a hobby. She has agreed to do our behind the scenes photography for free! This works out much better for us as we save on budget and we can also trust their reliability to get what we want.
Makeup
Originally we did have a makeup artist who was all set and ready to help us with our project, but unfortunately she had to pull out last minute due to health problems. This didn't leave me with enough time to source a replacement for our shoot week in February. For our studio shoot in March she brought her makeup along to be the makeup artist for the cast, however she didn't turn up in time to complete the makeup before we needed to have started shooting. Our cast pre-wore makeup to the shoot in case Megan was unavailable, so our project didn't suffer on this behalf.
There is a more detailed blog describing what happened regarding makeup and what I did to try and overcome this issue. The blog is titled: Production: Makeup.
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