What A 2nd AC Does On Set: Crew Breakdown
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In this first Crew Breakdown video I’ll go over one crew position in the camera department, that of the 2nd Assistant Camera or Loader.
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List Of Films Featured:
Living In Oblivion (1995)
Kill Bill: Vol 1 (2003)
Inglourious Basterds (2009)
0:00 Introduction
1:22 Role
4:46 Sponsored Message
5:51 Average Day On Set
7:59 Tips
10:05 Conclusion
Music:
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Jonny Hughes - ‘Fortress’
Alon Peretz - ‘Open Your Eyes’
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Things you missed out.
End board. If 2nd AC didn't clap at the beginning, they clap at the end upside down.
How to tear the actor's marker tape.
Using different colours for different actors consistent throughout the production.
Using a sausage marker instead of a tape marker.
Calling 'mine' when changing and holding a lens.
Checking inside the camera for any dust and using that pipette to blow it out.
Putting marks for the camera positions, if say on a dolly with start, mid and end positions.
Another show off Mr know it all
We call that a "Tail Slate", If the Camera is on a crane for example and difficult for the 2nd ac to reach, we still call out the marks and the slate but will also call "tails", which then means the crane op will drop down to your position or you can get up on set to clap for tails at the end of the take.
Thanks for filling in blanks for me.
Literally everyone in the comments:
**we want more**
YES
"When the actors arrive on set I also get their names and write them on tape, which I stick on the camera" I bet people love working with you. Those "little" details are everything at every job, not only cinema. Thank you for sharing those valuable tips with us.
this is a wonderfull series, i'm trying very hard to get on film sets aswell. the information you give in this video is invaluable
Do you have any update on how did you make it ? how did you ask ?
@@brutalxv I got into contact with a gaffer. I told him I liked his work ( I told him specifically what I liked about his work).
I then showed him a couple of my short videos and asked for feedback on my lighting skills. I told him I want to gain more experience on set. at the time I was willing to work for free ( luckily I didn't have to)
and now I'm on a set multiple times a week on pretty descend sized budgets for commercials. I work as a first ac and I have worked as a gaffer and I even directed a couple small budget commercials. and I am still growing. So I guess everything did work out.
sometimes things just take time and don't be afraid to take risk.
MY media management professor told us a story about when he worked DIT on a set in NY. He got hungry so he left his station to go get craft. When he came back, his RAID array had a problem and needed fixing. Alot of metadata had to be re-written by hand to recover the footage so it could be readable.
It turned out when he was gone, some PA went into his station without and pulled out one of the drives without asking because he needed to get the graphics.
My professor was up until well after midnight trying to get the footage recovered and backed up so he could get 3 drives prepared.
So he told us that the media managers are very strict / controlling for a reason. Because if some ignorant idiot messes with the DIT station, the whole day's work could be lost.
The lesson of this story is to never leave your station unattended because somebody will fuck everything up. If you need to get food, have somebody get it for you.
As someone who's yet to work in a film crew, I'm really excited for this series! You're one of my favorite content creators. Thank you for the work you put into these
The film 2nd AC is possibly the busiest position on set. The only time they aren’t busy is while the camera is rolling. Always moving equipment, and when everyone else is waiting or taking a break, the loader is away loading magazines, and organizing equipment. It gets even worse when there is no 2nd, and the 1st AC has to cover both jobs.
At 9:30 I love the feeling of hearing a DP or gaffer murmur what they want and having it ready immediately and surprising them. Same goes when a grip or camera team does that when you’re a dp
Please add sound, director, producer, and any other department breakdown, This series is so good!!!
This is a great video on the job, there’s colour marking actors, eyeline marking, camera marks (especially if on film). Also, weather proofing and cleaning gear, moving and setting monitors (these days with covid in consideration), make sure image is up (unless VTR on set), laminating or printing labels for monitors, labels cast lists and lens lists (mf, and t stop), having the schedule for the 1st AC, distances for shot matching, listening to every word the DP, cam op or 1st AC says and having keen set ears being able to hear them from 30’ away, coordinating with locations needs of the camera team, coordinating with transpo items to be picked up or dropped off, doing all the camera departments timesheets. It’s a lot but it’s a rewarding job.
It's really interesting to see and learn about the interpersonal relations aspect of working on a set, I had never seen anyone talking about it before!
Believe me, even if you don't make films often, you always remember the idiots you DON'T want to be on set with again!
I recently started working with a local production company. This video has challenged me to step up my game. Thank you!
Please cover all positions of camera department
Your perspective and tips are + on basic understanding of these positions.
I don't understand why you don't have over a million subscribers. I'm just a photographer and I love your videos!
This is gold! Extremely grateful for this kind of content.
Being a 2nd Ac is one of the interesting job, but at the same time it could be one of the hardest job that requires 100% of attention and concentration. I have this for 3 years and participated in shooting over 100 commercials few feature films and music videos and now stepping up into the 1stAC. I can proudly says I really enjoy being 2nd Ac the only thing I was missing in my career as a 2nd Ac was the fact that I didn't have chance to work with film cameras only on digital
Hey there IDC! Thanks for that video and thanks for creating a series. I'm pumped for more of those as (as you already mentioned) leaving a good impression is so important... Wonderful work!
Thanks to your channel I got interested more in the technical side of films, and it's just all so useful! I just hope there would've been more teachers like you in film schools. You really help us, thank you
I didn't know I wanted to know this until right now - amazing stuff, can't wait to see the rest!
This is absolutely great content, not many channels talk about these industry topics in such depth. I appreciate it!
Please make more! This is great content. Your channel has honestly been very helpful in tearing away the “facade” or “mystery” of filmmaking, in a good way!
So helpful. Great videos. Love it!!!
Yes please! More of this series would be lovely!!
Assistant Editor here, much love to my 1st and 2nd AC's!
Thanks so much for making this video! I camera assist frequently but I'm always learning new techniques & ways to do my job better. This definitely helped!
you're videos are invaluable, my passion for wanting to be a DP has only grown and part of the reason is that you have made me learn so much about it and for free too. love your channel, never stop uploading bro
Wonderful instructive series. Please keep making more videos about this topic !!!!
I’m about to start production on a movie for drunk driving for a organization. I’m still in high school and this is probably the best opportunity I’m gonna get. These videos give me a ridiculous amount of help and all I wanna say is thank you, you’ve lit up my hope of becoming a cinematographer. Pun intented
Thanks for giving us a heads up on the pun. Otherwise we’d have thought it was a gaff.
This content is worth its weight in gold to me. Excited to see the rest of the series!!
This was really interesting hearing about the different roles the crew members hold and the tasks required
Love this idea of the Crew Breakdown. Would not mind seeing more of this!
This was great. Very detailed. Thank you for making it.
I've been 2nd ACing for a bit now and still love to watch your videos! Always some brilliant info!
I just started writing scripts and shot my first chaotic short last week. This is a huge help and inspiration, thank you so much!
I love these technical videos you provide. I don’t personally dream or believe i will ever be on a film set, but the same way people like to watch a painter paint or a potter spin, I have loved your attention to detail on some of the more minute and finite details about film making and ideologies of the working side of filmmaking. It’s cathartic in many ways. I love to dream up and write little fictions and ideas for novels and short stories and sometimes these ideas just feel better if they were movies/films instead of written pieces. These videos add more to my daydreams. Thank you, as always.
This is a treasure trove of info for any film school student or aspiring filmmaker, and for the rest of us that just love cinema it's a fascinating insight into how a film set actually works. We're all used to seeing, mostly from movies about making movies, lots of crew on any set, but it's fantastic to get some insight into one of their roles and it really deepens my appreciation for cinema to see a little more of just how much effort and skill goes into making even a small movie production work.
This is such great information, thank you!! As an actor during the pandemic, it's hard to just sit there and wait, but this is a fantastic way to learn about set life without being on set (yet) :)
I love how much footage from "living in oblivion" you used.
we watched this at film school as a fun little treat at the end of a year to visualize how much can go wrong on a set ^^
Excellent breakdown of info. Yes, I would love to see more of these!
Thank you so much for this! There are no other videos on UA-cam on this topic!
Bro you gotta make more of these types of vids. Great video with a simple but to the point explanation
incredible!!! probably one of the most practical things you can give.
Keep making this series! So helpful and informative!
Great video! Keep up the good work! 🎞
Excellent series. Thank you!
Love this video, can’t wait for the rest of the series.
Can't wait for future videos in this series!
This was a really great video. THanks a lot!
Great stuff, love to see more
Thank's a lot for this amazing video and thank you for sharing your experience ! 🧡
Keep the videos coming you brilliant man!
Love this video! I am quite nervous about being a 2nd AC now haha! But I believe it is one of those things when you ACTUALLY are one, it won't seem as scary! Great videos as always!
here in Brazil the camera crew and duties are a litle bit diferent, but, as an aspiring Caemra crew member and , latelly, DOP, what you've shared is priceless. Very cool to know how a film crew behaves at bigest industry on the planet.
And pleaaaaase, keep bringing more of those, I'll probably watch them quit a few times kkkkk, thanks dude!
Yes let's see more of this series! Good job!
Enjoyed this episode!! Can't wait to see more in this series!!🎥🎬
Love your videos!!! They are always so informative and entertaining!!!
I like this type of Crew break down, please continue
Great video, very informative. Waiting for the next one in the series already :) Thanks for making this.
Great video! Would love to hear more about the first AC and DIT
Great video. I’m learning to be 2nd Ac and this was amazing
Just began receiving my camera training with IATSE in Quebec. This video really does a great job at skimming over the general responsibilities of a 2ndAC. Things are unfortunately yet obviously more complex, and though a lot of knowledge is required, it is stressed so hard that we aren’t responsible to know everything and that even people who have been working with the camera for more than 40 years, you learn every day.
Love this new series!
Great Video.. Thanks for sharing you knowledge and experience .
One channel on UA-cam which i enjoy watching. Keep doing awesome work IDC.
Keep them coming!!!
Can't wait to see more🙌🏽
Fantastic series!
Definitely continue this series. This video was very helpful!
This is easily the best 2nd AC video! Thanks!
Amazing job on the video as always. Keep up the good work and make more videos like this if you fell. Explaining the roles on film production teams
Excellent video - I look forward to the 1st AC breakdown.
Subscribed. Your South African accent and rich videos about film are worth a subscription.
More please! This was informative
This is what I was looking for, very interesting and helpful thank you so much 🙏
Really enjoy these type of videos. Very interesting. Would love for you to go in more depth on other roles, when you can :)
This is awesome. Please make more
Thank you sooo much I’m learning soo much from you ❣️
Great work is always my man, really interesting :) Did you get a new mic?
Awesome video!
Excellent and enlightening
Great series! Please do more
Can't wait for the next episode!
I have zero interest working in the film industry but this video was really interesting. Didn't know much about this job and hope you make more of these.
I love this. Please make more.
Great video as always! Loved your use of Living in Oblivion, such an uderrated movie. Also, does South Africa shoot in 25fps?
It's a great movie. Yes, South Africa uses PAL so generally local content here is shot at 25FPS.
Great video!
This was incredibly rich and helpful, thank you!
This is a great series!!
Profoundly useful, even for indies with modest crew - please continue!
I like the small touch of the arrows on the end on the gaf tape ;)
So helpful. Thank you
love the new series
great video!!!
wonderfull series
Definitely interested in more content like this!
Thank you so much this is invaluable
Got anxiety just watching this. Sounds like a hectic and scary job. Imagine working under your favorite director and they just coldly fire you. Terrible. No thank you, I’ll stick to the indie film route! 😂
High risk high reward I guess.
Dare to be great. No risk no reward
But if you do a great job, every time, you'll be one of the most in-demand professionals in the entire industry!
Like any job on set, it can be hectic, but once you find your feet, it all falls into place. Having done 2nd AC work, it's all about preparedness. Some days can be loaded with shots and multiple setups, but, depending on the shoot, it's not so bad. Being next to the 1st is your priority, and looking to them for what's needed is a good way of knowing if you're working too hard, or not hard enough. Getting onto set will teach you better than anything. Get on, mess up, get yelled at, and pivot. It helps to learn trial by fire. You'll quickly mold to the vibe on set.
@@vanburen08 Hoping to get on my first major long-form within the month, looking forward to all of this!
I think honestly the most important thing is to listen, listen, listen and pre-empt. A 2nd is there because the first can't leave the camera, so as long as you're listening and supporting your first, everything will be fine.
Yes! More please!
Yes, I would very much like you to continue this series, please.
I would love to see more of these!!