I found this video to be very helpful, as experienced Greg Zekowski  talks about being a 1st AD, how he performs the role and how he forms working relationships with the rest of the crew. 

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I was browsing the internet for more information on being a first assistant director and came across a blog on Tumblr called "goingforpicture." It is run by Michelle, a female 1st AD based in Austin, Texas, to answer questions about

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This was an introduction to set building and design, led by UCA's technical tutor Jim Casey. Before being allowed to touch any machines, Jim taught us about health and safety in the workshop environment. A lot of these may seem

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After discussing our previous updated idea with Rosie, we concluded that we should return to our original idea as we were trying to over complicate the project too much. Therefore the piece will now consist of touching different parts of

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An assistant director is someone who "assists" the director to organise and plan a project / film. Basically they offer support and are a right hand person to the director, so that he/ she are allowed to focus more on

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After much consideration, we decided that we were overcomplicating the project by trying to come up with an entirely new concept in relation to the brain that had a meaning. Instead we went back to the original idea to try

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Last night the entire group contributed ideas over Skype to help give the project a more meaningful approach. So far we came up with two main concepts : Following the theory that an ant, by itself, cannot do very much,

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We started learning the first three lessons in the Media Composer Editing Essentials book by Bryan Castle Jr. Lesson One  In this, we learnt the fundamentals of starting Avid, such as launching media composer, understanding how the interface is arranged

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After the finalisation of roles in the group I decided to do some research on what each job entails and how they work with each other to form a team. This post is an insight to do with everyone else's role

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Rosie told us to look at work by artist Jeffrey Shaw, as our interactive work may be similar. The Legible City (1989) // Jeffrey Shaw In this piece, the partaker rides a stationary bike through a simulated representation of a

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During our tutorial with Rosie, we discussed the following things. What is the meaning behind our project? The group needs to discuss what we are trying to say to the audience with the interactive piece, rather than just to make something

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In this meeting, we decided on our individual roles in the group. Thomas - Director Julia - Producer Rob - Cinematographer Lucy - Production Designer Joel - Production Design Assistant Ulysses - Sound Lydia - Grips Dowan - Screenwriter Molly -

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After hearing all the ideas from everyone in group tutorials and discussing them outside of class, Josh, Julia, Tom and I joined together and merged our ideas and goals. Initial Idea We wish to do an interactive installation piece involving

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The group met up again to look over the script that Dowan had created based off of our first meeting and discuss more ideas.  Rob also suggested we all watch Black Mirror, a channel 4 TV drama that "taps into collective

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Initial Idea Originally we talked about creating a campaign film in which there was a world with no art and the consequences that would bring. In the opinion of some, there is a big emphasis on art vs science and how

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My initial idea was to randomly go for a walk to somewhere I'd never been before, and try to notice unusual things that I wouldn't  normally look for and document them through photos. These images would then have been observed

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