Bones of Essimer - BDM331

Pre-production was fun. It was my first time when I involved in designing a set for shooting. Art directors did a good job. On the other hand, I had no slightest idea about what were we making. Then I started looking at the storyboards and communicating with Brandon. I understood that they wanted more and more hands on the set. I became like one of those slaves of Essimer. Lol.
My job was 'DESTRUCTION'. Yes...I had to break wooden palletes and provide wooden planks that could go into making of the set props.
Apart from that... I drilled things, cut things, tied things, hammered things, glued things, spray painted things, brush painted things, chopped things, cleaned things, pushed things, pulled things and nailed things. 'PHYSICAL REALM...YO'

Things Learned:
1. A lot of planning and preparation is required, even for pre-production. (pre-production for pre-production).
2. Team work is essential. If you stand 'alone', you'll be just standing.
3. Team briefing. Apart from 'team briefing' being a good excuse for taking a break, I think it's a nice way to keep track of the progress.
4. Wear gloves when working with wood and iron.
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These kind of scenes were pretty common then.

As I said...my job was to convert this...

...into this.

A little bit of painting.

Made fake shackles.

There was this particular hoarding in front of tin shed that I used to see all the time. Which said "SAVE EVERY DAY 3.99 NZD".

A hoarding of a supermarket or something. For me, half of that poster, was like a message, asking me to work extra hard to "save the day". Just a booster.

"save every day"