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A blog about working in indie film as an assistant director

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'I Didn't Get the Call Sheet'

The call sheet is perhaps the most important document issued throughout the production period.  Circulated daily, the call sheet outlines ­­the following day’s schedule, informing everyone where they need to be at any given time, issuing departmental…

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Lot of interest on my blog this week!

Wow, I've had a lot of interest and traffic on my blog this week.  Thanks everyone!  Do feel free to leave comments and post and pre-post articles you think are interesting, funny or that you just flatly disagree with.

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How The Room Became the Biggest Cult Film of the Past Decade

Ten years ago, a small independent film with a terrible script, a no-name director, and a cast of unknowns premiered.

Love this!

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'We'll pay your expenses and feed you lunch.'

Have a look at my article about working for free or expenses.

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‘We’ll pay your expenses and feed you lunch.’

My phone is my life and the moment it rings, especially with an unknown number, I’m immediately fumbling for a pen and paper to scribble down details for a potential project.  I’ll eagerly listen to the spiel – how they got my details, what their company…

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‘We’ll get back to you by Tuesday’

A few years ago I went to interview for a tv pilot with a company I hadn’t worked for before.  We were meeting in a fairly busy coffee shop and as I was rather early, I grabbed a coffee and read my book while waiting, clocking the interviews several…

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Until recently I've never taken over a shoot from someone, but over the last couple of weeks I've taken over two. Both were relatively close to the end, both were feature films. On the first of the...

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A blog about working in indie film as an assistant director.

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Until recently I've never taken over a shoot from someone, but over the last couple of weeks I've taken over two. Both were relatively close to the end, both were feature films. On the first of the...

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A blog about working in indie film as an assistant director.

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Until recently I've never taken over a shoot from someone, but over the last couple of weeks I've taken over two. Both were relatively close to the end, both were feature films. On the first of the...

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A blog about working in indie film as an assistant director.

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A blog about working in indie film as an assistant director.

Have a look at my blog about working in UK independent film as a first assistant director.

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Until recently I've never taken over a shoot from someone, but over the last couple of weeks I've taken over two. Both were relatively close to the end, both were feature films. On the first of the...

Have a look at my latest post, about covering for another AD for a few days at the end of the shoot.

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A blog about working in indie film as an assistant director.

Have a look at my lovely blog about working in UK indie film as a 1st AD

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About a year ago a young and stressed makeup artist approached me on the second to last day of a short. She looked simply harassed and terribly unhappy with what was at the time her first or second...

Have a look at an article I wrote last week about working at home, long after wrap time. It really is a vocational job.

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Good documentary recommendations?

I really love good a documentary and have been really psyched by all the news from Sheffield Doc Fest this week.  Any recommendations for new ones? I've seen most of the highly recommended ones ie. Queen of Versailles, Dear Zachary, Project Nim, Paradise Lost, West of Memphis, Deliver from Evil, American Movie etc.  Any less well known ones people want to pimp?