So I agreed to do some more stuff with DJ SkillKid (one of the boys in the 'I aint drunk' video). He requested a location shoot at Raffles Bar in Treforest. I foresaw this as turning into complete chaos if it wasnt managed correctly.
The director for the shoot was the same guy who didnt show up to the last one. He showed up to this one, although despite two meetings of running through what was going to happen on the day he managed to confuse the hell out of all of us. The actual shoot was a mess. The director messed up his bookings with the cameras so the whole thing very nearly didnt happen as well.
There was no clear direction and no one was managing all the guests and crowd that we
re walking all over the place. The caera men didnt know what they were doing, I was struggling constantly to find out what was being shot so I could move my lights, it was hell.
I was doing the lighting, I took more than enough HD lights with dimmers, plus 2 red heads, reflectors, trace, gaffa and sandbags. Over all my job was succesful, everything was lit despite the chaos and no one got hurt and nothing was broken. My
worst fear was seeing one of the lights being knocked off a balcony onto someone head :/ luckily that never happened.
The shoot was completed though and poor SkillKid (real name Reggie) had managed to get through it all despite the fear and panic he was suffering from the thought that it would not get completed.
However the 'director' has run off with the tapes and Reggie feels he needs more for the video, I've arranged for some camera and lights for him to do a shoot in the music studio in March and he wants to do some rooftop shots as well. I'm off on work experience in March so I may not be available to help out. But everyone has agreed never to use that director ever, ever again.
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