What a feeling! Two weeks of filming, new roles and experiences everyday, and now it’s done. I finished my schedule with a day of directing; for most people including me the most exciting and challenging day. The whole day is “about you”, or better said, about how you perceive the script and about your vision [...]

Being a boom operator means more than just holding up the microphone that is attached to a pole. The boom operator is in general responsible for placing mics in the best possible way to record the audio. Sometimes this means a boom, other times a radio mic, or a fixed mic that is concealed from [...]

First A.D. is short for First Assistant Director. This person is the right hand of the director and tries to execute the vision of the director. Practically speaking this means that the first A.D. acts as a floor manager on the set. The first A.D. makes sure that all the departments do their piece of [...]

No, my day had nothing to do with Henny Huisman’s Soundmixshow … Although it was me with the fingers on the buttons today. The sound mixer is responsible for recording the dialogue, live sound effects and other ambient noises on the set. On the set one or more boom mics, fixed mics and/or radio mics [...]

The clapper / loader does two things…: clapping and loading. He is in charge of loading new unexposed film in the magazine and unloading (“canning”) it after the roll is used or the shoot is done. The clapper part is holding the infamous clapper board denoting the production info, the roll, slate and take number, [...]

The director of photography (DOP) is the head of the camera department. He works closely with the director in order to achieve a specific look and feel for the film. This stretches a long way, from lighting the set and actors, to the choice of film stock and specifying the type color grading. For our [...]

The person who is in charge of the camera is called the camera operator. He or she is the one who translates the wishes of the director (“a medium close up of the girl”) to the appropriate frame and camera movement that you (hopefully) will eventually see in the finished film. This role not only [...]

The first real day of shooting. And boy did we find out! As was to be expected, everybody had to adjust to shooting ourselves for the first time. Of course we receive support by our tutors, but they run up and down the stairs every half hour or so. We had several severe technical difficulties [...]