​During the process of my first brief in my second year I was on a selection of crews for my year, little did I know that last years ‘speed dating’ lecture would pay of and would be asked to crew for a fellow film student in the third year.

An opportunity to get experience and gain knowledge, even as a runner, on a third year set was no question, obviously I was going to say yes!

The first set was Cutting A Man directed and written by Will Alcock. It is based on the concept of a surgeon finding out he is a character in a short film, leading to the director, who is actually Will, having to make some difficult decisions.



Day One:
Firstly we shot at a crew members, friends home in order to shoot the scenes to illustrate the normality of the character. Unfortunately we had some issues with the actor so just shot close-ups and cutaways for the day, which unfortunately actually got cut from the film.

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Day Two:
As a huge fan of hospital dramas I loved the fact we were shooting in a practice ward at Staffordshire University Hospital for the day. Only issue we came across were some props and costumes, improvised from scrubs to make the surgeon caps and tissue and a stitches set for the operation equipment. Another issue was an annoying alarm which someone accidentally set off and couldn’t turn off for a while but as the runner I was set on the role of getting help but they didn't have a clue either, helpful! Luckily I used my initiative and sorted it before we were delayed even more.



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Working on the Sony EX3 camera (Above, attached with matte box, SWIT Monitor and Vocus kit) and students who had more confidence and knowledge on them than me, with the Vocus Kits especially, was very insightful. I was also surprised as I have shot a few films on them with my fellow 2nd year’s (Level 5 students) and have all decided to hire and use DSLR’s for reasons of quality of image, easier to control and practicality working with smaller equipment.

Overall was a good experience, consisting of 14.5hrs, to see how the year above work and learning lighting and camera skills from peers.



Call Sheet (20th-21st November 2012):

Shoot Day #1 Begun: 9am
Shoot Day #1 Finished: 3pm

Shoot Day #2 Begun: 9am

Shoot Day #2 Finished: 5:30pm

Total hours: 14.5hours.

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Below: Screen Shots from film and video.​

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