Crew Role
|
Name
|
Justification
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Production Assistant
|
Josh Bateman
|
Josh has had past experience in the role as a runner in films such as
James Cameron’s Avatar and he could be beneficial for the pre-production
stage in the film. He has got an A-Level in Media Studies and shows potential
of being a successful production assistant in my film crew. He says he is a
hard worker, he is prepared to do long working hours, which is everything I need
for a production assistant
|
Sound Recordist
|
Loren Turner
|
Loren has had previous experience in the BTEC level 3 diploma and has
learned key skills such as editing and sound work which is vital for the
pre-production stage. She has had relevant film experience such as how to
assemble and set up basic equipment for film production. She could be an
editor as she has had experience in using an editing software such as iMovie
and she knows how to use a variety of camera.
|
Director of Photography
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Ryan Smith
|
Ryan has got key skills needed to be successful in this industry and
could be a potential camera-man for my production. This is because he has got
relevant camera skills and has worked with cameras in the past and has worked
on his camera angles, composition, size of the frames and still images. He
could be an important part of the team.
|
Assistant cinematographer
|
Varshini Yogaeswaran
|
Varshini shows potential for being the gaffer/grip as she has the
knowledge of camera shot sizes, angles and composition which is vital to this
role of a cameraman. Varshini would make a great fit into the team.
|
Thursday, 28 January 2016
Crewing Up
Wednesday, 27 January 2016
Recruiting a Skeleton Crew
A skeleton crew is a crew that is stripped down to the bare essential crew members to save money on the production costs or when shooting without any permits.
In an article for Indiewire in 2013, Noam Kroll, a Los Angeles-based filmmaker, suggested the five people needed most for a skeleton crew. The two people Kroll does not have in his skeleton crew are; the Director and Producer. This is because the director and producer will be on set everyday.
Kroll's essential people that must be in the skeleton crew are:
In an article for Indiewire in 2013, Noam Kroll, a Los Angeles-based filmmaker, suggested the five people needed most for a skeleton crew. The two people Kroll does not have in his skeleton crew are; the Director and Producer. This is because the director and producer will be on set everyday.
Kroll's essential people that must be in the skeleton crew are:
- Director of Photography - A director of photography can understand your vision of what you want as a director. Another point why having a director of photography is important is because if you are a director Dp'ing it can waste valuable time setting up equipment, and if you have a director of photography all those jobs are done and it takes the pressure of you as a director as you don't have to worry about the set up and focus more on the actors.
- Hair and Make-up - Having a make-up/hair specialist is very important as they can do a top job and make it look consistent throughout the production. Having a good make up artist can make the actors feel more professional and confident and it is important for the actors to feel at their best about it.
- Production Assistant - It is important to have a production assistant as part of a skeleton crew because a production assistant keeps things running smoothly and to make sure everyone is doing what they are suppose to be doing. Another reason why Kroll chose a production assistant is because he wants to find someone who is willing to learn and with a good attitude.
- Location Audio - The location sound recordist is one of the most important people on set. The biggest mistakes for indie films that the sound is not top notch which can effect the amount of people watch it. The reason Krull said about the sound recordist is that it is important to have one because if you have perfect sound then it will come across as more professional looking than perfect visuals with bad sound. Another reason why they're so important is because you need them to meet the requirements for the type of film you are filming and the skills required, you want someone who cares about the sound more than you do. The sound is a big part of a film and is more than 50% of the film.
Thursday, 21 January 2016
Runner CV draft 2
Kieran Falzon
Runner
07979106657
Based in
Surrey
My aim is to gain experience of the
job role of a Runner. I am very keen on getting this experience in the job role
of a Runner. I am ready to work long hours, and to undertake a variety of jobs
to become a successful Runner.
Relevant Experience
Creative Media Production BTEC Level 3 Diploma
The Beacon School
For 2 years I have learnt about Post –
Production
·
Post
Production
·
Editing
·
iMovie
editing software
·
Sound
Additional Film Experience
·
Camera
Experience – Composition, white balance, shot angles, shot sizes.
·
How
to set up a camera
·
Basic
experience of title installation and moving graphics.
·
Worked
with soundtracks.
·
Transitions
·
Dissolves
·
How
to trim a clip
·
Location
designer
·
Casting
director
·
Camera
operator
·
Writer
Other Relevant Experience
Sales Assistant
·
Communication
skills
·
Ability
to give information accurately
·
Product
knowledge
Sales and customer serving experience
·
Skills
developed even further such as communication skills
·
Time
management
·
Punctuality
·
Working
to deadlines
Sales Assistant – Waitrose, Surrey, Banstead
·
Hard
Work
·
Long
Hours
·
Team
Player
·
Stock
management
·
Skills
developed even further
·
Product
knowledge
·
Time
related skills
Education
BTEC Level 3 diploma, Creative Media Production – DD*
Technical Skills
Can work with any type of camera.
Can work with iMovie very efficiently
Windows Software
Microsoft Office, Word and PowerPoint
References are available on request
Runner CV Draft 1
Kieran Falzon
Runner
07979106657
Based in
Surrey
I have got no experience but are very
keen on getting experience in the job role of a Runner. I am happy to work long
hours, and to do all the necessary jobs to become a successful Runner.
Relevant Experience
Creative Media Production BTEC Level 3 Diploma
The Beacon School
For 2 years I have learnt about Post-Production
·
Post
Production
·
Editing
·
iMovie
editing software
·
Sound
·
Location
designer
·
Casting
director
·
Camera
operator
·
Writer
Other Relevant Experience
The Beacon School – Surrey, Banstead
·
Hard
Work
·
Long
Hours
·
Team
Player
Sales Assistant – Waitrose, Surrey, Banstead
·
Hard
Work
·
Long
Hours
·
Team
Player
Education
BTEC Level 3 diploma, Creative Media Production
Technical Skills
Can work with any type of camera.
Can work with iMovie very efficiently
Windows Software
Microsoft Office, Word and PowerPoint
Friday, 15 January 2016
Crew CV's
CV stands for curriculum vitae. It is a summary of your experience, skills and education. A CV is used to apply for a job and shows the employers all the experience you have.
Customising a CV is very important and the main 2 things you need to include is that you need to put down the specific courses down and the skills involved for the job you are applying for.
Another thing to make sure you do is if you are applying for something to do with distribution do not say you are a trained cameraman because they will not hire you.
CV rules according to MFJC
Always customise your CV and need use a 'general' CV.
Remove all irrelevant information including film experiences that are in the different area of the business.
Repeat the job title in the CV.
Remove your address.
The most important pieces of information go at the top of the CV.
Think what the employer wants and give what they want.
Don't put so much information on the CV.
Be humble.
Keep the file size small so you don't receive spam on your email.
Save your CV as "your name - the job title - company's name".
If you want to be a runner make sure your CV screams out at the employer and make the information relevant for the job role. You may not have experience but some recruiters look for individuals who have little experience.
Specialise
The single worst thing you can do what writing a CV is that you cannot say that you are looking for experience in all aspects of the industry because they will just throw the CV away. They want to hire someone who wants to exceeds in any aspect of the industry.
Example CV's
The advice given to make these CV's is that research about the job role and production you are going for and repeat the title of the job throughout.
Customising a CV is very important and the main 2 things you need to include is that you need to put down the specific courses down and the skills involved for the job you are applying for.
Another thing to make sure you do is if you are applying for something to do with distribution do not say you are a trained cameraman because they will not hire you.
CV rules according to MFJC
Always customise your CV and need use a 'general' CV.
Remove all irrelevant information including film experiences that are in the different area of the business.
Repeat the job title in the CV.
Remove your address.
The most important pieces of information go at the top of the CV.
Think what the employer wants and give what they want.
Don't put so much information on the CV.
Be humble.
Keep the file size small so you don't receive spam on your email.
Save your CV as "your name - the job title - company's name".
If you want to be a runner make sure your CV screams out at the employer and make the information relevant for the job role. You may not have experience but some recruiters look for individuals who have little experience.
Specialise
The single worst thing you can do what writing a CV is that you cannot say that you are looking for experience in all aspects of the industry because they will just throw the CV away. They want to hire someone who wants to exceeds in any aspect of the industry.
Example CV's
The advice given to make these CV's is that research about the job role and production you are going for and repeat the title of the job throughout.
Wednesday, 13 January 2016
Materials
"Materials" in film refers to any of the physical or digital object used in production. This includes resources you have created as well as archive footage and library materials that come in a variety of forms, for example, sound files, video footage, props, costumes.
"In house" refers to people in the production team who make their own material.
Doctor Who Props
For the British TV show doctor who they are one of their own production companies who make their own props. For example in the episode City Of Death 1979 a mask was made by Jean Sweward. They made the head of the mask is made out of muslin and the 'worms' were made with latex mixed with a silicon powder. The eye is a hand painted half ball.
Archive Materials
Archive material is old footage used in previous productions from different genres and mediums.
Documentary filmmakers often use archive footage t build and authenticate their narratives.
Example - A recent example of a film which uses archive footage is Senna, a 2010 British documentary directed by Asif Kapadia, that depicts the life and death of the great Brazillian motor-racing champion.
Bowling for Columbine
Library Material
Library material refers to material stored in libraries of sound or video effects.
Focus: Sound libraries
When a completed film is made, the wild tracks of non-dialogue sounds will usually be collated by the production company for use in future projects.
Over many productions a library of sounds and sound effects will be built up.
A large production company, such as the BBC, has a vast library of different sounds that can be tweaked and reused.
These may contain anything from raindrops to footsteps.
Focus: Video libraries
The BBC have video libraries as well.
Collections of different video effects often referred to as action essentials.
This may be anything from landscapes to traffic on a motorway.
The BBC sound effects library is a disc which has all the sound effects needed onto a set of discs. It has a range of sounds from cars to aeroplanes, ships to trains.
http://www.canford.co.uk/BBC-SOUND-EFFECTS-LIBRARY
Internet
Freesound is a website where you have a library full of different sounds. This site is useful because you can find any sound on this website and download them straight to your computer. But there are different types of quality of sound from each sound.
Property Rights and Copyright
If you want to use someone elses material you need to ask permission so you can use it and you must be prepared to pay for it.
A great deal of time is spent refining sounds and the sound designers, Foley artists and effects editors who invest in that time should receive a fee.
The main thing you need to make sure of when you are using someone else's material is that you have the written permission.
If a sound effect has been created by someone it is their property and they need the appropriate form of revenue when their materials are being used.
"In house" refers to people in the production team who make their own material.
Doctor Who Props
For the British TV show doctor who they are one of their own production companies who make their own props. For example in the episode City Of Death 1979 a mask was made by Jean Sweward. They made the head of the mask is made out of muslin and the 'worms' were made with latex mixed with a silicon powder. The eye is a hand painted half ball.
Archive Materials
Archive material is old footage used in previous productions from different genres and mediums.
Documentary filmmakers often use archive footage t build and authenticate their narratives.
Example - A recent example of a film which uses archive footage is Senna, a 2010 British documentary directed by Asif Kapadia, that depicts the life and death of the great Brazillian motor-racing champion.
Bowling for Columbine
Library Material
Library material refers to material stored in libraries of sound or video effects.
Focus: Sound libraries
When a completed film is made, the wild tracks of non-dialogue sounds will usually be collated by the production company for use in future projects.
Over many productions a library of sounds and sound effects will be built up.
A large production company, such as the BBC, has a vast library of different sounds that can be tweaked and reused.
These may contain anything from raindrops to footsteps.
Focus: Video libraries
The BBC have video libraries as well.
Collections of different video effects often referred to as action essentials.
This may be anything from landscapes to traffic on a motorway.
The BBC sound effects library is a disc which has all the sound effects needed onto a set of discs. It has a range of sounds from cars to aeroplanes, ships to trains.
http://www.canford.co.uk/BBC-SOUND-EFFECTS-LIBRARY
Internet
The interest is one of the most recent ways to get copyrighted material for your production.
http://www.asoundeffect.com/shop/
Freesound
http://www.asoundeffect.com/shop/
Freesound
Freesound is a website where you have a library full of different sounds. This site is useful because you can find any sound on this website and download them straight to your computer. But there are different types of quality of sound from each sound.
Property Rights and Copyright
If you want to use someone elses material you need to ask permission so you can use it and you must be prepared to pay for it.
A great deal of time is spent refining sounds and the sound designers, Foley artists and effects editors who invest in that time should receive a fee.
The main thing you need to make sure of when you are using someone else's material is that you have the written permission.
If a sound effect has been created by someone it is their property and they need the appropriate form of revenue when their materials are being used.
Facility Hire
A Facility hire is a place where you can hire production equipment from, for example cameras, lighting equipment etc.
Examples of facility hire:
Ice Film: Ice Film are a company who hires out equipment such as camera's out to people with small budgets for films an example of this is Ben Drew's film Ill Manors. Ill Manors had a very small budget and so Ben Drew hired out 35mm camera's from Ice Film to be able to make the film happen. Having companies such as Ice Film is very important to people who are trying to make short films or feature films on a small budget because they wouldn't be able to make it happen otherwise. Ice Film has hired out to camera for productions such as BBC 1's Mr Selfridge and
Examples of facility hire:
Ice Film: Ice Film are a company who hires out equipment such as camera's out to people with small budgets for films an example of this is Ben Drew's film Ill Manors. Ill Manors had a very small budget and so Ben Drew hired out 35mm camera's from Ice Film to be able to make the film happen. Having companies such as Ice Film is very important to people who are trying to make short films or feature films on a small budget because they wouldn't be able to make it happen otherwise. Ice Film has hired out to camera for productions such as BBC 1's Mr Selfridge and
Clearences
What does "cleared" mean?
Cleared means that you have written permission to use the content of everything that appears in your film. This also includes the script, brand names, logos and stock footage, images and music.
What is a film clearance?
Film clearance means that you need permission for all aspects for the film production. What is included in this are sets, actors/extras, music, stock film, art, posters, products/brands, books, computer programmes , dramatic works, photographs, etc. Film clearance is needed to avoid liability, acquire E/O insurance and to avoid any general copyright/trademark issues.
Clearance Checklist
Cleared means that you have written permission to use the content of everything that appears in your film. This also includes the script, brand names, logos and stock footage, images and music.
What is a film clearance?
Film clearance means that you need permission for all aspects for the film production. What is included in this are sets, actors/extras, music, stock film, art, posters, products/brands, books, computer programmes , dramatic works, photographs, etc. Film clearance is needed to avoid liability, acquire E/O insurance and to avoid any general copyright/trademark issues.
Clearance Checklist
- Script clearance - If your work is a work of fiction then you need to make sure none of the characters resemble an actual individual (living nor dead). It's alright if you make it on a real person but you need written permission to be able to do the film otherwise you can be sued by the person it is on.
- Content clearances - Anything that appears in your film needs to be cleared such as; products, logos and brand names, clips, stock footage, tapes and images, font, text and designs, famous works and people.
- Music clearances - Any music including published and original music you use in your film needs to be cleared.
- Location clearances - You need location agreements to allow you to
- Actors/contributors clearances
Finance - Equipment
Finance Equipment
Capturing the image:
· Camera
· Tripod – Fluid head
· Lighting
· Slider/glidecam equipment
· Jib/crane
· Canon LEGRIA HF G25 – 2.37 megapixels
· Canon 5D Mark III – Full frame 22.3mp Sensor
· Blackmagic Cinema Camera EF – 2.5k Sensor
Recording Sound
· Sound recorder – XLR connection
On board and stand alone
· Microphone
· Boom pole
· Wind shield
Capturing the image:
· Camera
· Tripod – Fluid head
· Lighting
· Slider/glidecam equipment
· Jib/crane
Capturing the image:
· Camera
· HD, full HD and sensor size
· Bigger the sensor size the better quality image and higher the price
· SD = 720 x 576
· 720p HD = 1280 x 720
· 1080p HD = 1920 x 1080
Task: Find 3 different cameras with different sensor sizes
· Camera
· HD, full HD and sensor size
· Bigger the sensor size the better quality image and higher the price
· SD = 720 x 576
· 720p HD = 1280 x 720
· 1080p HD = 1920 x 1080
Task: Find 3 different cameras with different sensor sizes
· Canon LEGRIA HF G25 – 2.37 megapixels
· Canon 5D Mark III – Full frame 22.3mp Sensor
· Blackmagic Cinema Camera EF – 2.5k Sensor
Recording Sound
· Sound recorder – XLR connection
On board and stand alone
· Microphone
· Boom pole
· Wind shield
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