The Edge Picture Company: Day 5

Long awaited..it was friday and then the weekend...so yea, anyway here it is.
Last day was pretty calm so consisted of the usual runner duties of being the receptionist and getting the lunch runs. Really felt like i got to know the area and the types of jobs expected of being a runner at The Edge. Would have been exciting if i had got to stay on one of the shoots for a bit longer but at least I got good exposure of what is expected of me and how to achieve this. When it was busy, it was a very fast paced job. I enjoyed the aspect of not being stuck in the office all day, which was what was nice about doing the runs. I have a little album of photos from around London and the office so hopefully can upload those soon.

The Edge Picture Company: Day 4

It has been another busy one today, but it makes the day fly by! Firstly i got to sort out all the release forms from the last two days shoots, and arrange them into the correct folders on the computer. Everything is so organised for each job / shoot and has lots of different folders within each, such as risk assessments, call and logs sheets etc

There was a shoot happening today at Silk Studios where i dropped off a large roll of paper, think I knocked a few people out on my travels, never mind! I think this is where they were filming for the Disney channel. On my way there, I passed Studio AKA, well I wasn't supposed to pass it as I had gone around in circles for a few minutes! Studio AKA has always been a company that I have wanted to also get experience with, they specialise more in animation, something I feel I would know a lot more about, but at the same time it is extremely good that I am currently getting experience in new fields. 

I took a few pictures around the office today, showing where I have worked on a project and where the props are stored, may try take some more on my last day tomorrow. Also all week I have been playing the tourist with my camera as I have been passing sites. So I shall upload those at some point this week too.

Lastly today, i met up with the director Andy, travelled to the city airport to drop off some documents and also to collect some footage that they have been shooting in Rotterdam, Here is where I got introduced to the film producer and also the camera operator.

The Edge Picture Company: Day 3

Today has been so much more busier, so I have been doing lots of different things. First of all i did two runs, first one was to Evelina's children's hospital near waterloo. Thought I could use my train ticket to get me about places but turns out I can only use it to get to work in the morning and thats as far as it will let me travel! So had a bit of a panic how I was going to find the place but eventually I got there to drop off some release forms. They were shooting there for a charity film I think. I then made my way to victoria street and the strand actually, to exchange some money into Qatar Riyal. Never actually heard of that before so was quite interesting to see what that looked like!
In the afternoon I got to work on one of the projects. It's annoying that I forgot the name of the project but it was about all about Europe's economy. Not one of my most intellect subjects, but I was subtitling it, so had to pay close attention to it, so I definitely feel more informed on the U.K's current state! I used a software called DivXSubtitler 2.0.8. Apparently it's not anyones favourite job but I really enjoyed it. I liked the fact that I was using a new software too, which was relatively easy to pick up.

The Edge Picture Company: Day 2

Ok so not much to update on today as it was a fairly quiet day at work. Got to see a little more of the area when out doing a few more runs, so definitely starting to feel much more confident when out and about instead of looking like the most touristy person literally trying to get inside my google map!
Had an overlook at some market research that one of the other runners was doing, as well as getting to see what the call sheets look like, scripts, log sheets etc and what has to be done to edit/adapt them per shoot.
Was actually quite interesting to hear about one of the guys who had been to the world premier of Skyfall for free, as someone he knew was able to get a load of tickets who works for Radio 1, sounded amazing. Iv'e only heard good reviews so far so is definitely a film a i want to see when it's officially
released. He somehow managed to have the production notes for the film as well which was pretty cool.

As for tomorrow, I know I will be the note taker in the mornings meeting, so hoping I can keep up and make sense of what I write in that!

The Edge Picture Company: Day 1

I had a really good first day at The Edge, everyone was really nice and made me feel very welcome. First of all I got a tour of the place, this gave me a good insight into what everyone does and to know my where about a little better. There were 4 different levels:

Level One:
>Studio
>Casting
>Production
>Meeting Room

Level Two:
>Production
>Sales & Marketing
>Finance

Level Three:
>Edit Suites
>Post Production
>Production Services

Level Four:
>Production
>Interactive Media
>Boardroom
>Meeting Room

They all have the same sort of layout so was really easy to know my way about as I started some running jobs.
I learnt to work the phones and general answering and transferring calls. Nothing too complex for the first day which is good! I got to see a little of Soho too when I was sent to do a couple of jobs, which was actually quite exciting. Got a little lost on one of the runs but found my way eventually! Least Iv'e started to get to know my way a round a little better anyways.
In general was quite a chilled and calm day so was quite good in terms of feeling a little settled :)

Summer as a graduate

So, what has happened since graduation.....
JOB HUNTING!
It's not been easy! and i've still not managed to find a job that is relevant to my degree. I decided to create a new CV something with a little more depth about my skills what I aim to do, and just a general re-vamp to make it stand out a little! I have been researching lots of companies I would like to work for and sending out my CV, and just asking if work experience is available, paid or unpaid I would be willing! Any experience is good experience. And FINALLY!!! My time has come. I got a call last week to do a weeks work with The Edge Picture Company. I am a little nervous, but so so excited about my week ahead!!
I am going to get back in to blogging, and shall be posting hopefully a day by day blog post about what I'm getting up to.
Just goes to show I suppose, you just got to keep at it and work hard!