So get back to the office today and informed the MD is doing an interview
So in the car park there is two van loads of kit a van full of media type staff more kit I’ve ever seen in my life (I’ve been into photography and video for years, and been on the odd small film set).

They setup a video village in our reception! and the interview is shot next door more, staff than I care to count and enough lighting to light Old Trafford and I’m thinking…..

Do they really need all this kit I mean REALLY I been on film sets with less kit FFS

Also we are told if we are leaving at 4.30pm all leave at once otherwise it will effect the cameras………………really! 🙄

Sound maybe but cameras?

I’ve done interview commercially, shot commercial stuff but blood hell I though they were about to start shooting the next series of GOT!

It once took lorry loads of crew a week to film someone passing some Persil over a fence when I used to work in Battersea.

Do they really need all this kit

Yes.

I mean REALLY

Yes, REALLY.

I been on film sets with less kit FFS

Cool, they obviously needed less kit.

You’re welcome, glad I cleared it up for you.

Are you firstaider?

*in joke*

OP – why did you feel the need to post this?

If the set up a large table covered in food. It’s for a US television.

I’ve done interview commercially

I been on film sets with less kit FFS

(I’ve been into photography and video for years, and been on the odd small film set).

I get it, OP. You spend time with cameras.

I’m am so not worth of you all……………..I forgot

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I’ve done interview commercially

I been on film sets with less kit FFS

(I’ve been into photography and video for years, and been on the odd small film set).

But you work in a place where they get professionals to come and do it properly, with the required kit. Seems like a sensible approach.

Almost forgot …..

Also we are told if we are leaving at 4.30pm all leave at once

WTF are you moaning about!
The whole place told to leave in the middle of the afternoon ?!

Easy life.

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That’s fine with me.

Small film set isn’t your mate with a GoPro strapped to himself somewhere you know…

Drac – Moderator
Are you firstaider?

*in joke*

Well, are you?

Or are you a Holby/casualty extra?

So was it just a simple piece to camera for internal use or something for a tv ad? A full video village seems odd for the former…

When our mob had a piece made for internal, consumption, it was very much

As a film production company ourselves we are far from that setup , however when it’s a big client and there’s an agency involved yup, boils my blood all these people that start becoming experts on set. Justifying their existence.

I will say though that film making is proportional to how much effort you put in.

For an MD I would say cam op, possibly lighting/dop. Sound which could be two. Makeup, teleprompter as most MDs are shit at delivering stuff. And then Director/Producer and usually a go between. Maybe interviewer if it’s not straight to camera. You could cut down from that though easily.

Massively depends on the scale of project and budget. If the budget’s there go for it.

We did Tony Blair way back with 3 people. (Ooh matron)

Corporate world innit?

We worked on a feature last month with only about 12 plus cast. But the budget was not there.

“A DOP?! Back in my day we had to film pieces to camera with no crew, by moonlight on a Casio calculator…” 🙂

Corporate is indeed funny – some clients “get it” and some really don’t…

‘They’ film outside our office 5 or 6 times a year. The number of people is staggering. But there’s usually a double decker catering bus amongst the dozen lorries 😉
I think it’s Disney Channel today so that’ll be properly ridiculous they’ve suspended parking for 500m in the road and side roads around – although yesterday morning there were 6 blokes filming someone moving traffic cones into the road.

Last shoot I did with the General Counsel and CFO we had two camera operators, radio mics, a lighting rig and a small track cam for some movement.
Two people being filmed, six people in support; one of whom was simply moving he track cam back and forth and two who were listening for content.

Internal stuff though. I’ve worked hard to minimise how much stuff we need to use – not least as it means you don’t have to carry much but also to reduce cost. It’s a fine balance between looking like amateurs and reducing cost though.

Personally I wouldn’t get out of bed for a film crew of less than 20 and a selection of at least 6 different sandwiches for lunch…….

I filmed the last 2 Harry Potter movies with just my phone.

I’ll be in my trailer if you need me

I filmed the last 2 Harry Potter movies with just my phone.

And the MPAA is now requesting your personal details from admins 🙂

And the MPAA is now requesting your personal details from admins

🙂

Do what the alkies round here do when they’re filming. Make a nuisance of yourself until someone pays you to go away. 😀

My wife had a friend who lived very close to where they filmed some scenes for Judge John Deed. It was the house where Jenny Seagrove lived.

The TV luvvies were a bit of a pain and I still recall the shout of CUT! as I honked the car horn on leaving after picking up my wife. Silly but fun.

So what? They were probably doing it properly. We did the last Champions league final with nearly a thousand of us, but that’s what you need to do a job properly when the whole world ( well quite a few) are watching and paying.

How many runners? I bloody love runners, every industry should have them!

Interesting how many TV people are on here.

Zanelad – just to give you the other perspective, when the shoot is costing £100 a minute, the daylight is fading and your actors just can’t nail their lines, a honking member of the public isn’t particularly helpful 🙂

Mate of mine runs some race track/test track darn sarf, avengers movie hires it the other year with exclusive rights for 4 months or some shit. It was in the film for 4 seconds apparently. I was at a party the other week when he was telling me this, was a much cooler story than the op but he was disappoint they didn’t get more air time. Again I’d been on the beers but it was something like 10k a day to hire exclusively. I don’t know what relevance it has to the OP other than filming. HTH

[Quote]it was something like 10k a day to hire exclusively[/quote]

Im convinced the cost of some things in filming is almost a spiral. One thing turns out expensive, so money gets thrown at everything else to make sure its not wasted untill the point that the original item looks quite reasonable in the overall budget so it gets upgraded!

The TV luvvies were a bit of a pain and I still recall the shout of CUT! as I honked the car horn on leaving after picking up my wife. Silly but fun.

Many years ago I worked at the Nick where Coronation Street filmed all their Police Station or prison scenes. They used to put signs up at the back gates asking us not to use sirens when leaving the station to go to emergency calls – they got rather upset quite regularly 🙂