the faces of production

It's funny how a camera changes a person's expression. Check out our First Assistant Director's face before and after he realised I had a camera pointing his way (maybe it was just the hot hot sun). Or it could have been the "don't mess with me" and "good job!" expressions that he needs to practise using on a daily basis.




"O" Khairul Askor was First AD on Baik Punya Cilok and on Buli Balik, and what a gem he is! What does the First AD do? Besides scheduling the whole production, making sure the right artistes are on set on time and calling "Action" on behalf of the Director, our First AD also stands in for missing characters and feeds actors and extras their line cues.












And then there's Frank, our Production Manager. This is basically Frank's expression most of the time. If you can't really see it, it's worried. The only time it's different is if he's swearing he'll kill himself over some location problem - don't worry, it's when he's cracking a laugh! See, he hasn't even noticed all the extras I told you about last time.

What does the Production Manager do? If he doesn't have a location manager, he arranges for the locations, makes sure the permissions are gotten and negotiates any fees. He also handles the money on set and metes out payment (so be nice to him). He has a great Assistant Production Manager, Bob, who is not in any of the pictures. Yet. The Production Manager basically makes sure everything is running smoothly and often has to work ahead of the production to make sure everything will be alright.

And one last face, Actor. This one we hauled out of sunny England to work in the heat and humidity, and here he is chilling with one of our extras suppliers who brought a mix of people to be wealthy characters at an auction house. Say hi to Stephen who arrived last Saturday night and jumped straight into his first day of shoot on Sunday.




So what does an Actor do? Well, besides looking the part, they need to convey to the audience and emotion or idea, and visually too, because acting is not so much about the dialogue but the... acting I guess. People always remember the look in someone's eyes when they're about to lose someone, or get shot, or when they're in love, in the movies.

And finally, I have never seen a bunch of guys pose faster than our fabulous tech team. I suppose always being on the other side of the camera does that to you!















Signing off,

Ass Prod