This past weekend we finally got to shoot Sam's excellent little script, Audition. (Genius title, right?) I think it's an excellent example of how to make a film short and sweet and still contain all the dramatic beats you need: Noah wakes up on the morning of his dancing audition but takes the wrong music.
My role was (well actually, still is) editor but I went along to the shoot too as a general goffer - pouring glasses of water (which we really, really, needed), set dressing, heavy lifting, CD cueing and since Murray wasn't there on Saturday I stepped in briefly as a kind of Line Producer. Producing isn't really for me I think but I can, at a pinch, ask someone if we can use their path and gate. I also composed the music since we were trying not to include any copyrighted material, and after the shoot we digitised everything so I could get to work. I also did some setting up of lights, camera and sound, and it's rather shocking to realise that I can do all of that automatically now while carrying on a conversation about which shots to get.
It was good to see Sam working, and how he covered shots - very thoroughly. As editor I'll have plenty of choices and I think it'll cut together very well. My aim is to be finished by the time we start work on our end of year films, so watch this space.
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