A Day in the Life

Gaffer

Time	Activity
08:00	Arrive location, start the generator, check the cables and links, deliver the power and have breakfast. Meet with the D.O.P. to see what's expected of us today. Tell my team of electricians what lights we'll be needing where, an when.
10:00	Interiors, and small lamps so we don't cook the actors! There are lots of them, and when the DOP want to change the gels - to give a 'later that day' look - it get busy. Sparks are crawling around the small room to get to all the gels, whilst rehearsal goes on!
12:00	Things are running smoothly with the interiors, so take the opportunity to get over to the exterior location where some large lamps have been roughly positioned - to enhance the daylight. Work on setting these lamps ahead of the rest of the crew arriving. Somewhat irritated they havn't got all the lights we really need - it'll be a bit of a compromise..
15:00	After a quick lunch, - first time bum hits a chair since first thing this morning - it's on to the exteriors. Fire up the large lamps and so it appears the sun's shining! It works fine.
17:00	Check with Production Manager the kind of scenes we'll be shooting tomorrow, and try and catch the DOP to work out a very rough plan. At least we can get some of the kit organised and pretend we're ahead of the game!

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