Work Experience week 1

6B2. 6A2

STINK

Day 1 

Alongside the Production assistant, preparing multiple documents such as story boards for the ‘cook up’ for big supermarket tomorrow. Alongside this looking at the casting for some different commercials they are working on and preparing the correct documents to show the Producer. 

Sat in a meeting / discussion with the Producer about a few jobs that were coming up. Was interesting to see how much work goes on behind closed doors before the filming of the commercial - so much paperwork / recce etc happens that I never really thought about before. 

I was also added to many emails and a call sheet for the cook up tomorrow. Where I will be assisting the ‘art department’ as a runner. Not only this but was added to the correct dropbox folder so I could put the documents up that I drew up for them. This was informative for me as I got to look at multiple documents that were related to the cook up I will be attending tomorrow. 

To best inform myself I wanted to look at all the documents so I had a greater understanding of what I will be doing tomorrow. Not only this but it gave me an idea of all the different aspects that are included and go alongside the job. For example one of the documents included the budget for the costume change which was estimated at £6100 for the job. It was interesting to see each of the different elements that are included on the job and how they work together to make the job run smoothly.

Day 2

The cook up. A cook up is something they do before they shoot the commercial and prep all the food that will be shot - relative to each story board with each scene being shot with the correct plating / decor that goes with the theme. 

Each scene / plays that is being shot needs to be approved by all of the member included e.g. the agency, the client etc. 

I was assisting the art department today where I was working with tess and nick. They are both to do with the props that run alongside things like commercials. I wanted to gather as much info about every aspect so I was asking them questions about previous jobs and what they love to do. They said on a job like this they usually are just making sure they have all the correct props e.g. plates and that they match the correct theme for that scene. 

The theme of one scene / story for example shows a Caribbean family making a roast together as a family. So for this we were matching up the correct plate for each of the foods - as it was a Caribbean family we were aiming to looking at colourful plates to match the theme and to hint at the theme for the filming. 

There was a lot of discussion throughout the different meetings about each scene where little details were being picked up by people. I was aiding tess here in picking out the different props e.g. plates that would match the food colouring and shape. A lot of thought was being put into the different shapes and sizes and colours that would be appearing that was also relative to the theme. 

As it was a roast for one scene the client was wondering if it was too wintering for the summer commercial that they were going for. This is where the chef was adapting his ideas and aspects that he could change to make it more summery - it was little details like this and the different shapes of the food that was really thought of that make the commercial as good as they want it. 

After the cook up was completed, we packed away all the props and made the changes to the document that had all the information about the shoot day. Adding various info and notes from throughout the day onto it e.g. what plates to use for what scene etc. 

Day 3

Back in the Stink office I created the keynote presentations ranging from 20 seconds to 60. for all the 5 scenes that will be happening on shoot day. To do so I had to go through the story board frames and screenshot each of them. Once I had the screenshots of each frame I then had to put them in the keynote presentation in the correct order. 

Throughout the whole of today I was with the Producer for the commercial, Production Manager and Production Assistance. It was interesting to see how the three worked together /alongside each other. I was receiving jobs from the Producer herself and the Production Manager.

I then got given the script for each of the scenes, where I added the correct lines that go with the correct frame. I also had to add all the text for the voice overs and had to make sure it was visually pleasing for everyone to view. 

After I had completed this I was then added to another dropbox folder where I was able to explore more of the different documents that were linked to the current project that is being worked on. This folder was about the different locations that were researched and gone to where members of the team had taken photographs of the location to show. 

Half a keynote presentation was completed with the different site areas and my job was to finish the presentation with all the images that had been marked for me to input. This was interesting as it showed me the different ‘recce’s’ that had happened in order to find the perfect location. Once I had do

Lucy (the production manager) asked me to go through all of the call sheets and pick out the ones that they had listed as the ones that they want to use or the ‘talent’. Once I found them I went through all their CV’s to see what commercial experience they had in general looking for the talent that had been in previous supermarket commercials experience they had. 

The producer came in later that day and asked me to do a couple of admin short jobs for her including doing her expenses from when she went to a location for a couple of days on a recce. It was cool to see what she was expensing to the company to see what sort of thing they are allowed to. The majority of the stuff that was being expensed was food, taxi’s, coffees and there was a big food big from a fancy restaurant which was a client meeting. 

Day 4

The original story boards for each of the 20” and 60” scenes have been edited to go alongside a revised script. I have been sent the new details and a pdf with the new included story board frames which I need to extract and input them into the right place where I will need to move them all around.

 I then went over my revised storyboards with the Production Manager to double check they are what they need. Once I had done the frames and checked them with the Production Manager we sent them off to the Producer who is on a recce in Scotland today. 

I only had an hour to all the 5 scenes that were ranging from 60” and 20” as there was a meeting where they need the updated scene to progress further. This was a bit of a rush however I managed to complete it, which my Production Manager was happy about. 

Treatment - tom green - the director at stink films won the job through a pitch. There were at least 5 other directors pitching for this job. 

- when lucy (production manager) got offered she looked at timings how big it was to see if it was a job that she wanted to do with the team within stink

further storyboard adjustments (noticing the sketch artist got the scene wrong so emailed back asking him to change - had this back and forth to make sure he was drawing the correct frames for the script

I then printed the new scripts, call sheet and other documents ready for the 2nd cook up tomorrow as the PA and PM in the office are in a meeting so I need to take them to the other PA at the cook up.

asked me to go on the shoot for a day or two to help out :)

Day 5 

Back in the supermarkets HQ getting prepped for the last cook-up with the updated scripts that I created for the team for another cook-up.