Brief of Chrome Productions

Chrome productions was a company I looked at during last year at University whilst I was looking for certain jobs to do with extreme sports as that’s what I wanted to do at the time last year during BBC production. I found Chrome productions and spoken to one of the colleagues who worked there asking for some work experience.

He said he couldn’t offer any at the moment due to there being none available but once there were some he would let me know.

He later emailed me saying I could be a runner on a music video and I happily accepted.

The music video was for Andy Burrows, who was the drummer out of rasorlight.

On this day I had to go and get lunch for all the crew and make sure everyone had a period to eat before getting on to the next shots after lunch.

I was also in charge of the music so that Andy could play and lip sync to the track so there were no mistakes when editing the music video. There was one scene at the end which involved a lot of extras to the video. I had to be behind the stage giving instructions to the extras when and where they could go when the director shouted action. I had a walkie talkie to know when the AD shouted action so then I told people behind the curtain when to go.

I also with another runner had to set up a set for the music video so that the characters who were judges were sat behind a table to make the theatre look like they were holding an audition.

After doing the music video shoot I then got an email asking if I wanted to help out on another shoot which was a short film. The short film entailed of  boy from the 80s who found a rubix cube and could so the puzzle unlike the bullies at school. I again was a runner at this production and my main job this time was focusing on food and trying to look after the rest of the team whilst they carried on working. There were two days of this shoot one was at a local school in Notting Hill when the other was a house in Ladbroke Grove. It was very interesting and a again I have not worked in this area of field before. So again I got to see first hand of what it was like for an independent short film.

This has helped me this year with my project as I know what things I need to look out for or accomplish before I begin shooting my film.

Chrome Productions We produce online content for the world's leading brands, virals, promos, commercials and TV programmes.

Having started out in the world of extreme sports films and programming, Chrome prides itself on always producing work that is unique, adventurous and spectacular.