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| AFTS FINAL FILM PROJECTS - CREW Avalon Film & Television School Final Film Projects Various - Camera/DOP, Lighting, Sound, Set, Edit Assist, Actor, Thanks, and General Production Includes Director of Photography on the Course Director Awarded "Best Video 2003" 2003 Aside from working on my own final project, we worked in teams to help create each others final projects. This saw you hopefully swap around roles on each others productions. This meant I might be doing camera on one production, or sound on another, or art department or lighting, or anything else that needed doing. For the final films this is what I worked on: 1. Waka Ama in New Zealand Tee Wells did a documentary on Waka Ama, a form of outrigger canoe, being raced here in this country. This was a personal subject for her, and she spent much of the production working on this for weeks before our final projects were supposed to be worked on. The documentary came out looking stunning due to the extra work she placed into it. I was credited as the First A.D. on the shoot, but really she just credited everyone on the team with something even if they hadn't worked much on it. In my case, I was less an A.D. and rather I helped shoot two interviews and some cutaway works, and even then this was mostly working on the sound recording side. 2. Enchanted For Linda Jackson's drama set in a fairytale land, I was called on not only to do some lighting and set work where needed, but appear as an actor - one of the castle's servents. Thankfully the role required minimal dialogue, which I was always terrible with, and mostly required me to wear a silly outfit and run around a lot. It was a lot of fun however, and all shot locally around the studio and local suburbs making it mostly an easy production for us. 3. Lessons For Chris Popperwell's drama/thriller, I was called upon to be the Director of Photography. I shot a very basic and consistant style for Chris' real world materal, but then went to also tell a stark story with bright and specifically overexposed shots and creative visual angles for extra storytelling. Chris was quite specific most of the time, so he made the job quite easy for me. Chris would later add heavy grain to my original overexposed shots to create an scary alternative world, mostly inspired by a videogame. A weird rendering glitch as well provided inspiration for the opening titles, which highly suited the material. 4. Te Timatatanga: The Beginning This was Joe Tahana's visual telling of the creation of the Planet Earth via Maori legend, through the seperation of the Sky Father, Rangi, and the Earth Mother, Papa. Working as the Director of Photography with Chris Popperwell as my lighting and camera assistant and under Joe's well thought out direction, we created a contrast of our main actors against dark backgrounds, colored lighting setting location and mood, and creative camera angles to help explain this legend. The production went on to win the Best Video award of the course from the tutors and course director. Aside from these four projects, plus my own, I was often credited with a thank you in many other students productions. I spent a lot of time providing editing assistance or production support, the areas of the course other than shooting where I found myself the most comfortable. Out of the final 20 student films, I am credited in 13 of them with either a specific role or a special thanks. My contributions with my course mates saw me awarded with an Peer granted "Overall Contribution To The Course" award at the end of the year.
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