Today Jodie asked me to be a runner on Slaps, Matty's Final Major Project. I was excited to work on it because I'd heard the idea earlier in the year and found it quite amusing. I picked up Jodie and Richard at 8:30, once we got them and the equipment in the car we went to Steel Gym in Middlesborough. An extremely cold but visually interesting gym.
The first stuff we got was of the main actor Stephen and his coach played by Michael. I was really impressed with these two guys as they tackled the material with a lot of energy. I even found myself laughing along at points as this for me was the first time I was hearing some of this dialogue.
They did run into problems with the sound as throughout the gym they were blasting music for their members working out. This was a nightmare for Darcy as there was no way to avoid it. We moved one of the scenes, which was an emotional scene between the lead and his girlfriend from the main hall of the gym into a side corridor as an attempt to get things as quite as possible.
Next we moved onto the slaps montage with various opponents. The main fight took place between Stephen and James. This was good for me because it gave me the opportunity to be formally introduced to James, who I never properly met in first year.
Overall in my opinion the shoot went really well. From someone on the outside looking in, I felt the problems started and ended with the sound but the visual part of the production looks really good so far.
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