HI!!!
Today will be our third day of filming Blood Brothers, and it feels like it is going well, but slowly. We seem to always run late, but I guess that's just the nature of the job. Things are coming together still, but I'm enjoying the lifestyle. The 'powers that be' will not let me work more than 10 hours (+ 30 mins lunch break), so cos I'm needed on set late tonight, I'm not starting till 12. It'll be a long day, but I've finally worken up feeling refreshed from my sleep.
Yesterday, I got to spend some time on the actual set, not just with the 'unit' base 20m away. The costume standby needed an extra set of hands because we were filming two different pieces at once - she was upstairs with the main cast and most of the crew, and I was downstairs with a 3rd Assistant Director, Props man, Camera man, and an actor - filming close ups of stabbing. I'm not going to lie - I felt quite nausious. Props man - Simon - had rigged up a pork belly with syringes and tubes so that it would 'bleed' when our actor stabbed it. I was there to provide the clothes, so that our pig matched the characters they were meant to. I felt like throwing up whe a bit og pig flesh flew off the bloody knife and onto my leg. Even knowing it's all fake isnt enough sometimes, as we are trying to recreate what happens when a real person actually gets stabbed.
In other news, I'm emailing my resume and portfolio out to some other future potential employers today; it's a really good idea to email the next job looking for work BEFORE the current one ends. So that's what I'm doing. Fingers crossed, eh?
Gotta run, or I will be late, as there is so much to do!
Wednesday, February 16, 2011
Monday, February 7, 2011
Lunch Break
Hi internet world...
I'm on my lunch break, and thought I would follow through on my promise to blog more regularly, and as there is no time like the present, I thought I'd try a sneaky blog.
Work is going well! The show is called Blood Brothers, not sure if I mentioned that previously. I'm still unsure on all the privacy clauses, so I will be circumspect. The cast I have met are amazing, and make me really excited to see some familiar faces, as well as knowing a little of their backgrounds and wanting to see the work they will produce on this project. I'm really enjoying the work, though the only sewing I have been doing has been ro produce multiple dressing gowns for when they get covered in blood, and burnt etc, as well as needing duplicates for continuity. I have completed 4, and found out today that I need to make a 5th one!! cest la vie... I'm learning loads about how Hero works - the costume hire place most of our costumes are coming from, as well we re living the 90s through fashion. I do miss velcro sandals, PALE denim, straw sunhats with bright coloured flowers, and aboriginal dot print t shirts. All of which I can unashamedly say I owned and wore regularly!! Late this week we will move into the 'Costume Bus' - a trailer on the back of a truck which will be our home for the next 4 weeks of shooting.
The shoot schedule came out today, and it looks like I'll be working on a couple of saturdays, though will get the mondays off those weeks so we only ever do 5 days in a row. That's so we can film in a court room without ever taking up the court's precious time. Also, there are a couple of huge late nights ahead of us - start at 1pm, finish at midnight for several days. Thats the trouble with summer - we need outside to look dark sometimes, and when we do, we have to wait AGES for it to happen!
That's all I actually have time for. It's 10 mins till a fitting with our lead, and the costumes are still in bags waiting to be unpacked. oops!!
I'll write again soon, as always.
Caitlyn.
I'm on my lunch break, and thought I would follow through on my promise to blog more regularly, and as there is no time like the present, I thought I'd try a sneaky blog.
Work is going well! The show is called Blood Brothers, not sure if I mentioned that previously. I'm still unsure on all the privacy clauses, so I will be circumspect. The cast I have met are amazing, and make me really excited to see some familiar faces, as well as knowing a little of their backgrounds and wanting to see the work they will produce on this project. I'm really enjoying the work, though the only sewing I have been doing has been ro produce multiple dressing gowns for when they get covered in blood, and burnt etc, as well as needing duplicates for continuity. I have completed 4, and found out today that I need to make a 5th one!! cest la vie... I'm learning loads about how Hero works - the costume hire place most of our costumes are coming from, as well we re living the 90s through fashion. I do miss velcro sandals, PALE denim, straw sunhats with bright coloured flowers, and aboriginal dot print t shirts. All of which I can unashamedly say I owned and wore regularly!! Late this week we will move into the 'Costume Bus' - a trailer on the back of a truck which will be our home for the next 4 weeks of shooting.
The shoot schedule came out today, and it looks like I'll be working on a couple of saturdays, though will get the mondays off those weeks so we only ever do 5 days in a row. That's so we can film in a court room without ever taking up the court's precious time. Also, there are a couple of huge late nights ahead of us - start at 1pm, finish at midnight for several days. Thats the trouble with summer - we need outside to look dark sometimes, and when we do, we have to wait AGES for it to happen!
That's all I actually have time for. It's 10 mins till a fitting with our lead, and the costumes are still in bags waiting to be unpacked. oops!!
I'll write again soon, as always.
Caitlyn.
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