Rbbit Hole- Summer days

Rabbit Hole- Alex Hollowbread

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uXUQPjLStoU

 

 This was a music promo i worked in art department in the pre-prodction. I helped paint and sew together the main rabbit hole, it was hard work as there was a lot to sew and i wasn't very well. I worked hard all day and got the job done. I mixed paint and mud together for the muddy wall effect int eh rabbit hole. 

The Pre-Production

This was the set build for Alex Hollowbreads shoot, a third year students fmp where a young boy falls down a rabbit hole. This was me working on the inside of the rabbit hole.

 The inside of the hole at the beginning before i sewed branches and fabric to the roof of it and everyone helped to paint it brown with muddy clumps and twigs in the paint to make it look like it was underground.

 This is what the hole looked like from the outside, the chicken wire is what i had to sew the fabric to from within the hole.

 The next few pictures are of me sewing the fabric to the chicken wire, it was hard because the wire was pulled so it was hard to bend between the fabric.

                             

Fairytale of New York

                                                The car we used for the 1940's scene

                       Lighting department setting up the lights while i prepare my notes

 Me and Sam Marsden helping out the sound mixer (radio mikes were in the car and he needed us to read the lines from  the script so he could get the levels right)

                                                   Ben focus pulling on a static shot

                                    The two actors just before a take rehearsing their lines

 Me listening to the actors rehearsing their lines through the radio mike so i can correct them before a take

 Me and Howard (art director) discussing the art department for an upcoming shoot.

This was a student short film i script supervised for this week. The story was about a gangster that lost his family in a car crash, only his sister survived. He went on doing crime to support her but ended up in jail, when he came out he wanted to join a gang but had to prove he was the cold hearted thug he portrayed so they made him take part in a gang rape of a girl who had a bag over her head. afterwards they removed the bag to reveal it was his sister. It was a grim storyline but a great script, on this day we only shot the detective scene where 2 detectives are discussing the case. The rest will be shot in July where i have been asked to come back and script supervise for them again.

                                                    PART 2- November 2013

This was outside of the Mansion, it was all run down and gross but an excellent filming location. You can see the producer greeting the female actor.

This is the director talking to the assistant director about what shots he wants to get first.

This is the crew setting up lighting and tracks  for a shot and the art department dressing the set

The art department setting up props and dressing the set before we started shooting.

This was all the menly men helping to carry a piano up the stairs for a prop.

What the scene looks like on the monitor i have to watch for continuity errors

The director giving the actors some advice and notes on exactly what he wants from the scene.

The producer was a stand in so the camera department could get the right framing and lighting while the actors got ready.

One of the last cut aways of the day, i had to make sure the hat went in the same position every single take.

Actions from the second day on the shoot where the main gangster was coming down the staircase.

This scene was hard to work on because of the nature of the story and because there was so much action it was a lot to look out for but i feel i did a great job.

The actor relaxing and giving lines while the sound guy got his levels right between takes.

Just before a take where the make up artist was adding a few extra touches to the females cuts and bruises.

Me recording the time of a take while i take notes on the action and continuity.

                                                3rd shoot day- pick ups 11/12/13

 Setting up for the first shot, a slow track in to show a picture of the 2 main actors as kids

                                                The Judges mallet hitting the desk

                                  Adele, the female character being bagged and kidnapped

                                 DIT working on the shots as soon as they were done and during takes

                                                                  The three gangsters

Circus /Brothel shoot

In this 6 day shoot i helped out in art department and costume, by far one of the best shoots I've worked on as of yet with a great crew and cast.

                                         Martin doing the last few checks before a take

                                                    From outside the opium room

                                 The Brothel corridor we made and dressed before the shoot

                                   The costume i had to choose from to dress all the actors

                                                 The opium room we built and dressed

                                     The art department on the shoot for the Brothel scenes (me on the left)

                                         Just before we had dressed the inside of the tent.

                                        A safety briefing before we shot the trapeze artist.

                                     The circus tent, the sign was made by art department

                                                    The clown just before his take.

                         Me and Howard (art department) helping the lighting department out!

                                        Grips setting up the tracks for the next shot.

 Camera department getting ready for the take and the script supervisor sorting her notes out.

 The fire breather, i was on stand by with a fore extinguisher and blanket in case something caught fire.

 A scene where the man on the ball chases the clown around the set while another clown draws one of the audience women as a pig.

             Getting the shot of the knife juggler, i was wafting the smoke for the lighting.

Me dressed as an extra audience member, with my brother and his friend who were also extras.