NFTS residential prep

So less one week to go before I'm off to High Wycombe to be working on 'Jigsaw'. Myself and the team are all buzzing but there are still plenty of things to do before we go back. For myself, this includes preparing all the things we will need in the edit, preparing them now so we don't have to waste time over the two editing days!
So, to explain to the guys what the options are, I created this video to show them what I meant.

Hopefully they'll come to a decision soon!

As for kit, we're packing some of the heaviest equipment I've ever had my hands on! We've been sent a PDF outlining the key bits of production equipment we'll be using over the two shooting days:

Alexa Kit

Naturally, our cinematographers are extremely excited to having the opportunity to be using it. Hopefully I'll have a look in at some point but we are there for a job so maybe not as much as I like.


Keep you posted on the weeks developments.

NFTS welcome weekend

The other 65 top young film makers from across the UK, and Noel Clarke!

So I've just come back from my weekend over in High Wycombe outside London at the NFTS! Met my team and got to read our script, really good!

It's a rom-com called 'Jigsaw' and is about one couples break up one evening, and the people they meet and the lessons they learn which will make them get back together again by the end of the day. Obviously won't reveal too much as once it's finished in 5 weeks time I will try to post it up on here!

Over the weekend, we managed to meet our teams and the members of the other teams as well, already begun networking!

We also partook in some team building activities, including water rocket designing, whole team skies and segway racing!! Unfortunately we came joint 4th out of 6 and I gained a ruined voice from shouting too much during the team skies but still fun all the same.

We then had a master class with non other than Noel Clarke! (guy who played Mickey Smith in Doctor Who? Yeah that guy.) where we got to question him on how it was being not only an actor, but a writer and director, usually on the same film! All the complications caused by that, especially when filming on to film seeing as there's no playback to make sure your camera caught the right angle.

Proper work begins in three weeks time over the easter holidays, where we'll choose our locations to film, our actors who will most likely come from professional agents (Who knows, we may have Daniel Radcliffe starring!), and everything else associated with the pre production process including shot listing, storyboarding etc. We will then attend master classes in London itself and get personalised future careers planning which should prove extremely helpful in getting a job in the industry!

And perhaps most excitingly, once our films are finished, we will attend a full on premiere of them at the BFI south bank in London! What a way to end.

Loved this weekend but think I'll love the next 5 weeks even more as we prepare like crazy to make the biggest films of our lives! Really lucky and also surprised to get in, the must see something in me?
Check back once I'm at the proper residential.