Major Project - Crew

Crew

An essential part of the role as producer is to ensure that the production has a crew working under it. While the production already has itself a producer, screenwriter, cinematographer and director, it still needs more crew to help manage with the sound as well as to allow Josh, Troy and I to focus on our own roles. I asked around the first and second year students if anyone would be interested while Josh and Troy continued to work on the shot list and compositions.

With the small budget that we will be working from, look for contributors externally was not an option I wanted to consider unless I wanted to expand on the budget. Having worked on third year student productions twice, I understand that it is encouraged for third year productions to introduce other student to the major project.

Before making a decision on who I would contact, I had to make considerations for our budget. How much would we be willing to pay and how many people would we require? Here are the positions we wanted to fill for our production:

• Sound
• Camera Assistant
• Production Assistant
• Make Up
• Photographer

As for payment, it felt sufficient that, as this was to be an experience for them, only travel costs would be covered.

Crew Roles

Camera Assistant - Gavin Roberts

Gavin was always an early contender for any one of these roles as he had shown interest in our film in the first term. While we had not settled on a role for him at that point, we did ask if he would consider working with us on our production to which he obliged.

We had initially decided that he should take up the role as our location sound but changed our decision and made him Troys camera assistant. The two had worked together on the studio production and worked well. Gavin was also happy to oblige in supplying us with a couple pieces of lighting equipment that he owned as well as a clapper.

Sound - Jack Whitely

I have spoken to Jack a few times in the past and felt he would have a good working chemistry with myself and the rest of the crew. Like Gavin, Jack had also shown some interest about our film so it only felt right to ask his availability. Obviously the sound plays a huge part in the film as it's half of the audiences experience so it was important Jack knew how to use the equipment, which he did.

Production Assistant - Saskia Tatt

Saskia is currently living with Josh and Troy which meant it only depended on whether she was available for the shoots as travel would not be an issue here. Thankfully Saskia was available as her shoot was a couple weeks after our own. As she has her own production to work on, I do not wish for her to feel as though she has to abandon her own work to help out on ours. Luckily this is not a major issue as 3 of the shoot days were at the house any way.

Make-Up - Hannah Quinn (and Saskia Tatt)

As make-up and photography were not a part of our course, I realised I may have to look externally if I am to find anyone to fill these roles. I had worked with Hannah before on the Double Exposure shoot where she was a make-up artist and decided to give her a message on Facebook asking if she was available that week. Thankfully she agreed to take part and I would only have to pay travel expenses, however she was unavailable for one of those days, the Tuesday. Saskia agreed to fill in for that day. The make-up was fairly simple with some touch ups throughout the day to keep it consistent.

Photographer - Harvey Flux

This was the hardest role to fill. I had contacted the photography course without success and nobody I knew was available to help out on our shoot. I didn't want to pay any major fees to bring in somebody externally but it looked like the only available option. We had considered allowing Troy to take some pictures as he had done photography as a hobby in the past but this would only distract him from his own role and therefore slow down the shoot.

Our course leader Simon had suggested that we use first year student Harvey for our film, informing us that he has a keen interest in photography. I had contacted Harvey and he had no issue in helping us out on our film.