kai Assistant director

Kai Sappleton During this assignment I was assigned to be assistant director as soon as we all arrived on location I was in charge on team productivity the first scene I was telling the crew the best places to film, the room we shot in was small so it was a challenge for me to place people in the correct space so we decided to only have 3 people in the room filming and doing sound the rest of the group was outside the room making sure unwanted background sound from the other group didn’t disturb us, On the second day I was helping out most of my group members providing assistance what where the most professional camera shots we could use this was made evident when we was filming on the high road and I suggested we used a long shot to give the impression someone was watching the character Snpes from a distance out of view. My other job role was lighting the scene when we was filming in the chip shop I chose to take the peg lights because we couldn’t depend lights in the building this helped even out the contrast of light in each shot I am satisfied watching the scots back how the lighting turned out. The weather was a consistent pain because we was filming in sunlight so we couldn’t film during an overcast because the continuity wouldn’t make sense I was helping Emanuel keep track of the weather so the scene look of high standards when kiren was filming the shots. When we came back from surrey our group still had some filming to do because we needed the actual London location to film in for the scenes. We also decided to do some additional filming it was my idea add a few voice overs of the main character to monologue over to connect the audience to the character more. Also I thought that the ending of our film could be improved on we are currently working of adding more elements such as a backstory to the drugs and the moral choices he has to live with because of his actions. My overall experience in surrey was a positive one I came back learning in order to produce a film of high level each eventuality has to be measured so we can adapted and overcome obstacles, even though the major obstacle we faced was the weather we still made an effort to just get on with it, I found it challenging to act and tackle my 2 job roles at the same time but I think I handled it well I am pleased with the overall outcome of the film, the only thing I would change if I could go back and improve on is adding more humour in the film.