A blog with me in it

So we had Production Designer Eleanor Wood in yesterday, who told us all about the various roles of a PD,  told us all about how she got into the business, and gave us some useful pointers. Until yesterday I was quite unclear as to what a production designer actually did, I thought it was much closer to the organisational role of Producer, but in reality it's much closer to Art Director, which Eleanor worked as for a number of films. Among the most universal pieces of advice she bestowed upon us were: Stay away from unions if you can help it, electricians are the bane of the filmmaker and stick to your creative ideas no matter how much opposition you come up against from your crew. All in all, it was an informative visit, and entertaining too, I'm definitely going to keep an eye out for A Thousand Times Goodnight, the trailer was fantastic.

Among everything though, she confirmed my suspicion that Dylan Moran is a legend.

I was also asked to act as sound guy on another group's film already, so it appears I'm in high demand! I really can't wait to get started with production, on other films and my own.