Teamsters, David and John.

Byron. Standby Props

Sound Recordist "Overdressed for a film set, underdressed for real life".

Catering and Craft Services.

We are filming in Austin, Texas for three days and figured I ought to update my Film Crew labelled folder.
First up - Jim, Transportation Manager and Teamster.

Since working together last summer on How I live Now, stills photographer Agatha Nitecka and I have become friends. We bonded with each other on the train journeys we shared going back and forth from Welsh locations and have been collaborating on a stills project throughout this year.
Agatha's photographs are beautiful and, unusually for film stills, they are often black and white. I find it interesting to see parts of the film through a different eye. Agatha's blog and website can be viewed here.

1971 Film Crew

I am researching 1971 for my current job and came across this fantastic on-set still from Get Carter.
Look at the crew! The camera department and the make-up or hair designer, all parkas and Belstaff, look pretty much the same today.
I particularly like the Continuity lady, or the Script Supervisor as she would be known these days. I immediately IMDB'd her: Doreen Dearnaley - Continuity. She has a string of credits from 1949 through to 1973 including Carry On Camping, Up the Junction and Quatermass and the Pit.
I hope she wore her red hat on all of them.

Film Crew # 14

Mark and Louis, Unit Drivers.

Top Boy Costume Sale

We finished Top Boy with a costume sale.
The idea was to have rails outside and an element of decorum about the proceedings but it threatened to rain and so we had a bun fight at lunchtime on the truck which was much more fun indeed.
It's hard to photograph but fifteen or more cast and crew members at a time, all trying on clothes and calling out offers was a bit mental, like a jumble sale really.
Bargains galore and a huge reduction in the amount of unloading we needed to do the next day, I'd call it a successful end of shoot.

Film Crew Workwear #13

Sparks.

Film Crew Workwear #12

John the Medic.

Film Crew Workwear #11

Pete from the Security Team.

Film Crew Workwear #10

H and Josef - Catering. Mick and Dave - Facilities Drivers, Jake - 3rd AD. Beth Gillman and Genevieve Cox - Costume Assistants.

Film Crew Workwear #9

Top Down: Dean the Stills Photographer, Rash the Sound Recordist, Gemma and Juliet from Make-Up and an action shot of Warwick, the Grip, with Matt on the rickshaw.

Film Crew Workwear #8

Top Down: Matt Lumley, Spark, Pia who is here for work experience in the Production Department, David Harwood our Production Secretary, Boris from Bulgaria who is with Security and Paul Gatley, one of our Unit Drivers.

Film Crew Workwear #7

Top: Chris Allen, Standby Props

Below: Matt Fisher, Camera Operator

Film Crew Workwear #6

Top: Alan Hold, Security. Alan is also three times British Olympic Wrestling Champion.

Below: Assistant Directors - Jamie D our 2nd and Adam Lock, the 1st.

Film Crew Workwear #5

 Jermaine Edwards, Camera Trainee and Rachel Clark, Camera Assistant

Film Crew Workwear #4

Chan Chau,  Production Co-Ordinator

Film Crew Workwear

In tandem with my workwear project I thought I would publish the reference pictures I am taking during this shoot, if they all give me permission, I aim to log a full crew by wrap on June 6th.

First up is Heather Storr, our Script Supervisor.