After “First Kiss”, I worked on four of my classmates films. My group was awesome and I think we produced some of the best MOS films of our year! It sucked to be the first person out of the crew to shoot. Would I choose to go first again? Definitely not! But the upshot was that I was able to focus completely on everyone else’s films and I wasn’t constantly thinking about the pre-production of “First Kiss”. The shoots were intense and as the length of the days became shorter our call times became earlier and earlier. Four and five am starts became the norm and I got used to putting on as many clothes as possible in order to face the cold weather.
The toughest jobs were Assistant Cameraperson and Director of Photography. There are a myriad of ways in which you can destroy a Director’s movie when you are filling these roles. Easy mistakes like reading the light incorrectly, scratching the film or screwing up the focus can cost you valuable shots and potentially the whole film. All the time, money and effort that has been put into preproduction is wasted if you haven’t successfully captured what is in front of you. Jarreau put it best when he said ‘When I’m loading the film, I feel like I have a nuclear bomb in the changing bag.’ We were all equally inexperienced and we all made mistakes but luckily we were all still able to put together some great films. Yay!
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