Following graduating Manchester School of Art and finalising the short film pavemt produced by Hannah Stevenson she contacted me briefly to ask if I would help out as a runner and sound enginner on short showreel snippets for Manchesters upcoming artists that would be produced by the producer Baldwin Li, known for his films "The Voorman Problem (2011) ", "England is Mine (2017)" and "25Gs (2008)".
On the day we drove directly to manchester to a local pub where we set up to curate 4 actors show reels, this particular day for me was intresting as I was able to work across multiple roles, starting out setting up with the camera department ensuring we had the correct lenses etc. movving onto the lighting department where i worked on putting down cables, ensuring health and saftey, gaffer taping trip hazards and setting up key lighting on the first set and moving onto running in gernal where i was getting everyomne bevrages etc. This day ran extremly smoothly, we got through the first two showreels with complete ease before breaking for lunch, following lunch I came back and had a slighlty more hands on job, we went outside to the pubs gardens and my new job role was to sheild the camera and camera operator from the epic august sunrays leading really binding within this department, i made soem friends for life on this set bonding with sound, camera and lighting department making some incredible contacts.
Overall this day was extremly humbling to work on as it wasnt a large set, it was strip back to basics and refreshing to see compared to the larger sets i had been working on within this period, they are a lovely contrast and refresing to be able to go from large sets to smaller set ups. Getting to work alongside the producer Baldwin Li was also an impressive and humbling experiance itself, he spoke to me persoanlly conserning my future plans and what steps he would reccomed me taking, ts really intresting to see the diffrent opinions between diffrent producer and directors, for example as i want to be a director some people reccomed jumping straight into directing as others belive i should work my way up within the AD deparment to gain confidance before jumping straight into directing, its really intresting to hear other proffesionals opinions.
