Harlanfoster AD

Production Roles As assistant director my role was quite complicated and strenuous. As AD you have to be on your toes all the time, talking with your team making sure everything is up to date and everything is going to schedule. We faced a few problems but in the end everything pretty much went to plan. Location wasn’t what was promised and was slightly hindering as we planned to shoot in a town type location, but we turned the situation around by altering the script slightly by changing the last scenes location to the canyon and it all went swimmingly. During swindle I made sure I was aware of all my teammate’s issues and any problems that came up, for instance when we was in town we had a cock up with the sound. For some odd reason the phantom power wasn’t working, we quickly solved this by getting the local co-op to co-operate with us. Our camera man was using the D7, a very good camera visually and it had good connections for the mics we had to attach. Our production used tie clips and a boom both worked well with the only problem being batteries. We had a few disappointments in terms of what equipment was promised and what we ended up with, but in the end we pulled through and achieved the best possible quality of work with what equipment we had. An interesting change was our pub scene. It was originally being shot in a coffee shop but with the help of some networking and a friend called (star) we were able to shoot in the pub that Sherlock holms was written for several hours. Living quarters where quite close which made everything a whole lot more tricky. We all chipped in with the cooking and cleaning which we found out was an essential part of a film crew, I cooked on the first night. One of the hardest scenes to shoot was the break in scene. We were using the same room for two different scenes so we had to do a little rearranging of furniture, but nothing the team couldn’t handle. I also helped out the other group in their chip shop scene as an actor; the people made us feel very welcome and didn’t have a problem with us at all. All in all I feel our trip was a successful one, all scenes where filmed on the day we planned and we had shot every single one by the last day.