Internship day 3,4 and 5

Our last portrait together. From left, Alice Rusell, Jane, Tom (an Intern student), Dabie and me.

Overall working with Secret Harbour Ltd is a new whole world to me as I never working with film company before and this was my first time do this internship stuff. Over all I learnt a lot as I have to do things that I never tried before or good at e.g. using a typewriter, technical drawings of planes, boats. This environment has forced me to give it a go even though I made lot of mistakes during first few trials. However, I did not enjoy it much because I have got no chance to do what I want to do e.g. animation or illustration. 

Working with a film industry have broaden my knowledge and my mind. For example I learnt the rules of making a film, their strategies, borrowing items from companies for their film sets.

Internship day 2

Jane told us that we were lacking of technical drawing for the scene, so all I did today was technical drawings. I never did this style of drawing before. I was struggling at first then Jane came and helped me. That was useful. She told me to just 'fake it'. It doesn't have to be very detail as the camera will not zoom into the drawings. 

I did 17 sheets of technical drawings in total today. I realised that my drawings slowing changing into my tone of voice of illustration which is a bit funny but I managed to avoid that. 

I met a person who worked with Shaun the Sheep. He was a 'leg designer', he had to create a lot of characters' legs to use in their stop motion.

I realised that there are a lot of departments in making this film. I am working in art department, there is a accountant department, producer department etc.

There is this thing called 'Clearance summary' where the crews need to make sure that they do not use any existence brands, if they do then they need to tell the company or change it into something else.

The crews hire most of the equipments because it is cheaper than buying them. 

Internship day 1

5 days of internship at Secret Harbour Films Ltd, helping them with a movie called Swallows and Amazons for the BBC.

Monday , 3 August 2015
I was a bit nervous because I do not know what to expect.

Our door bell.

After I rang the bell, a lady called Jane collected me from the reception. She is so friendly and helpful. She explained about the task, showed me the kitchen and toilet and showed me the studios, where they do shootings.

The task was we have to create some drawing plans, sheets of paper with typewrite font and hand writing font including the main characters name on the letters.

I experimented with the old font because I need to create some letters to place for the background scenes. It was difficult at first but then I get so into it. I thought I cannot achieve the font but I did was I let myself some times to familiarise and create some mistakes.

I also used an old type writer machine. It was fun and it made a lot of noise. One thing about the machine is I cannot erase anything if I spell it wrong or something. 

There was other two interns student called Sunny and Tom. They were with me all day long. I think it is interesting to meet other art students from different art backgrounds and institutes.

Jane showed me a plane for a scene in a movie. They actually rent it from a high specialist plane company which the company specialise in hiring plane for movies. They used an actual plane for the movie and the plane was made from a crushed plane.