Thesis: Ending With a Bang

Two days left on the last thesis show. This is another six day double – the Director of Photography gave up his film to DP and co-write this show. To my knowledge, this is the largest thesis production ever. It’s a sci-fi film with massive sets built on...

Grip and Electric – You Will Get Wet

I’m finally done with my two back-to-back film sets as Key Grip and Best Boy Electric. We wrapped at 12:45 am last night, pushing just about every Film School rule with overtime and wrap times to the limit. I learned a few things during the past two sets. One,...

Halfway Through Thesis

Some notes from the Head of Production concerning our thesis film sets: Well, it’s halfway through Thesis and I wanted to give a few notes from experience. The tougher part is coming up. Everyone is getting more and more tired. Please remember, you’ll want...

Time for Some Union Rules

Though we’re not quite in the union, all our film sets are run using their rules (with the addition of some film school rules). This plays a very important part in how film sets are run and the day is scheduled, so I figured an overview is in order. A typical...

Friday Night Dailies

Just got back from watching the dailies from the first show I worked on. Everyone that works on the show is required to attend, no matter what their position, mainly so we can associate what happened on set and how everything was set up with what the final picture...