New Crew Development

Since the beginning of the announcement for FMP; Jordan, Lewis and I have been working together as a production team to work on our own projects. We would each be sharing different roles in each of the projects, however due to unfortunate circumstances with time and casting we have been advised by Jamie to work on one solid project and considering the majority of the production aspects have been covered, we decided to work on the piece I wrote for, Endure.  This didn’t cause much problem for us as a team as we have helping each other since the beginning but I felt that they deserved more roles.

So thinking this I re-organised the cast roles more fairly, Lewis has been helping me since the beginning and seems to have a firm understanding with the narrative and final outcome so we decided that he would be co-director as well as sticking with the other roles we assigned. I had originally planned to share the role of camera operator as there were segments that I and Lewis wanted to record which we did but we gave majority control to Jordan. 

Also we had all promised to work on Christi-Leigh Cooper project as her crew but due to weather and last minute cast let downs, we was stuck in a situation where she couldn’t begin production. So after pitching to Jamie Holman, I had arranged a number of tasks for her which she could work on behalf of Endure. Christi and Jordan Jenison (another student working on Christi project) would together produce a “behind the scenes”, “bloopers”, “trailer” and a number of interviews to be made as a preview for the final product of Endure. I also gave Christi the title of Producer along with me as she has had on a number of occasions helped me with actors, props and schedule work. 

By everyone coming onto one project, it allows us all to work together and focus more on any issues that may be missed when working on multiple projects. It also prevents any rushing and last minute shoots, by this I mean if I needed an extra day shooting we wouldn’t have to wait much later in the week after the other projects when everyone wants to focus on editing.