Bogiez Halloween

Halloween is almost here, its the biggest night for the rock club I used to work in so I've done a quick teaser promo wiv last years footage as a gift to them.

IRONCLAD

I have just spent the past two weeks working on IronClad as a locations assistant. I got the job through a fellow student from uni who had been there for some of the pre-production.

I spent the first 4 days in St Donats at Atlantic College where they filmed the beginning of the film with rain effects, horses and lots of mercenaries. We then went onto Tretower to another little castle which was dressed up as a market place (it looked amazing!) Then from there we went over to the main studio near Bridgend where they have built a huge castle out of wood and scaffolding, it looks amazingly realistic until you see the back of it..

My role basically involved ensuring access and directions to all locations and sets, getting all the trucks parked up and setting up base locations. There were nasty parts of the jobs, including collecting all the bins and standing around in the pouring rain and mud. But my position meant I was able to communicate with every department such as special effects, art dept, set design, grip, camera, catering, sparks, rigging, transport and steve the chippy. I've met a lot of very talented people and chatted to a few of the big actors, eaten some lovely grub and learnt how to fill and move water bowsers and big trailers.

The heads of our department have been very impressed with my enthusiasm and allowed me to do some things I would never ordinarily get a chance to do. `unfortunately I was let go by the production due to money, I was expendable and the last on in on the job. But they shall be returning to St Donats and a few other locations outside of the set next month and I am confident I'll get called in on those events. As well as that I have been promised more work from my unit manager in a seperate company that provide big vehicles to many other productions, although its not what im training to do its still another foot in the door of the higher end stuff :p

So yeah, hopefully there'll be more news on that :)

ITV Wales

I caught heard of some filming going on in my universities TV studio last week from my course leader. It was for a band I'd helped film previous music videos with before, 'Dirty Goods', with local record label 48V, so I promptly made myself available and requested to attend the shoot as a student. Shortly after freeing up my time the boys at 48V got in touch and asked me to sort lighting out for it anyway, perfect!

So I went along earlier tonight expecting to do a bit of lighting and meet a few staff from ITV, which I did :) Once the lighting was all set up and I'd chatted to the guys for a while the cameraman asked if I'd like to operate a camera, I jumped at the chance!

I'd used the cameras before last year and was quite familiar with them.

So I got a camera on a jib, locked off for some shoots and allowed to go crazy on others :D

Anyway, the music vid of the band and interview will be shown on the Wales Show this Thurs night and I'll have a credit on it.

Quite happy with that result :)