2nd AC on "Backbone"

A couple of weeks ago I helped out on Alexander Barkers shoot as a 2nd AC for his final project “Backbone”. I've been working as 2nd AC a couple of times before, on music videos and short films, and It's something I enjoy doing. 

The set, story and the crew were great to work with and I got some idea of both locations and crew members to contact for future projects. (I also learned that you can hire a truck for only 200£) 

On this production I was asked to write a Camera log which would make the editing easier. I had never written a camera log before so I fund it quite stressful in the beginning since I had to keep track of which lens was used for each shot, the aperture, filter, the framing and movements and of course the scene, slate and take. 

I’m happy that I’ve learned to do it since it would be really usefull to have for the edit since you mark which of the takes are good and write down why the bad takes are bad. 

It’s definitely something I’ll use in my projects later.