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 :)
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