A Day in the Life
Production Assistant / Broadcast Assistant
| Time | Activity |
|---|---|
| 09:30 | The day starts with a meeting about next weeks shoot. We need to hire in extra crew, and recce the six locations. Sort hire cars, location permissions and negotiations |
| 10:00 | Get on the phone to book the hire cars. Check the crew have the schedule/call sheet for this weeks shoot - so they know what's happening and when - at least in theory!! Check that the directions to the location, from the net, agree with local knowledge - often they don't! |
| 11:00 | Take a call from security at our filming location. Their checks are going to reqire us all getting there earlier, so I check with the director and adjust the call sheet accordingly. |
| 12:00 | I then have to adjust the hire car bookings too.. |
| 12:30 | Assist the Production Manager with the recent expenses claims. We have a few queries... and it's always embarrassing having to ask the boss what particular journey a taxi receipt was for! |
| 13:30 | Finally manage to stop for lunch |
| 14:30 | Check out where the local Hospital and Police Stations are for next weeks shoot - just in case you understand... |
| 15:30 | Research and call hotels for next weeks shoot. It needs to be close to the filming location - but not in a congested area or we'll never get there on time! Not having much luck so will try again later. |
| 17:00 | Take call from the director who's on a recce in London of a few locations. He wants me to chase up the museum contacts for him - he's been delayed in traffic and they may have to stay late to meet with him. So it's left to me to sweet-talk them!! |
| 17:30 | Call from the set designer - for the Series Producer. Do I interrupt his intense discussion with the AP? I choose not to ... But nab him when he's done. |
| 18:00 | Chase the hotels one last time and fortunately can confirm all the arrangements with them. Pass the news onto the production manager and the production team. They're not interested in how many hotels I've rung etc - they just want to know the result! Hurray - the end of another day - make a list for the morning and dissappear before I get caught up in another problem! |
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