week10

Week 10

Meeting Breakdown:

My Week Breakdown: 

We realised that the storyboards were nowhere near detailed enough to have an idea of what to do on set, especially because they were finished before we even knew the proper location. Tyler, Sonam, Megan and I spent the weekend doing Previz, and we essentially scrapped all the storyboards and used the script to break down all the shots and make them in Maya. We made good progress and should be finished early next week in time for the shoot. We had the test shoot where we got some footage and tried to take it through the whole pipeline over the weekend. This was my test run at catering I went with something easy pizza and apparently I didn't get enough and I thought I went overboard. learnt my lesson go big. I think this will help me estimate more the quantity of food I need for this shoot. Nik sent me this photos of the shoot. 

week 9

Week 9:

Meeting Breakdowns:

Panic mode. I have been sick for the past week with a very bad cold. This put me out of action and I was really no use to anyone. So this week I had to play catch up in a big way. My job of location scouting had been offloaded to Sorcia who had been contacting the real estate agents. No luck so far.

I went on a sales run to get some hi-vis vests and draw some petty cash to have on hand as we draw near to the shoot it will be helpful. 

My Task Breakdowns: 

Catch up. 

I have been playing catchup all week. 

I was really put at a disadvantage this week. I missed a lot over the past week and catching up is hard with everyone so busy on there own things I am left to figure out what my role in everything is atm. I am focusing on trying to get a location sorted asap. 

week 7

Week 7

Meeting Breakdown:

This point, we are a few weeks behind schedule and the filming is coming up fast.  As producers we discussed really trying to push the point of how far behind we are without right blaming someone. just to get people on the same page and hopefully, move forward and push through to the shoot.

I want a revised proposal to give to the owners of the warehouse to hopefully be able to help us secure a location.
There needs to be a discussion on costumes between Monica and Marcus I will try to sit in on this meeting to get a rough idea on the type of items we need to purchase.
Good news we have centre staged booked thanks to Jacqui.

My Task Breakdown:

In my own time, I have continued to try and contact the renters of certain warehouses Marcus liked.
I am trying to procure a copy of the revised proposal to give to them. I am hoping this will help motivate them to lend us the property for free.

I am really starting to struggle with timesheets. I have a weekly reminder now on the agenda each week and yet I am still missing a huge amount of weeks. Also, inconsistency in the template has become bothersome.  I am going to try and push that they are formatted a certain way I am aware there are people who use software apps to produce them which is fine as these are more readable and make my life easier, Outside of this my role as a producer is becoming a major focus for me. I am trying to be involved in all aspects of the film pre-production or at least well informed. The Produces chat has become an essential chat and point of information for me I think this closed discussion between Tyler Jacqui and me helps us keep on top of everything as we can rely on information and deal with the situation as they arise.  A good example was how we were able to quickly find the best course of action to take with the Craig situation that arose. Chloe bought her grievance to me and I was able to quickly relay this information to the other producers and decide a course of action and by the next morning Rachel was informed and the situation was being handled. Chloe really appreciated how quickly we helped and the issue was dealt with. I also did some Number crunching as we draw near to the shoot trying to work out how much we are going to be spending on the filming days. the catering budget is so crazy as I will be doing the catering I have free rain but I want to try and stick to $250 on food a day.