Field Notes
Permits, wireless licensing, customs, budgets and the problems that only show up once the camera is rolling. Written from the floor, across Southeast Asia, Australia and New Zealand.
A full scene on Lord of the Flies, played metres from falling water, with a noise floor that cannot be fixed in post. There was no single trick. There was a stack of decisions, made in order, and one of them made post's day.
Read →Stage sizes, water tanks, what post exists on site, and a door to door travel time measured rather than quoted. Plus an honest list of what each place does not have. First write-up, Iskandar Malaysia Studios, in draft.
See the series →Indonesia consolidated film permitting into a single office in June, with free location scouting and fee reductions for foreign shoots. The widely quoted 50% rebate is a different scheme, and it is not open to you.
Coming soonFour countries within three hours of each other, four different sets of rules about which frequencies you may legally transmit on. What each regulator actually requires, and what happens at the border.
Coming soonDay rates, kit, crew size, travel days, overtime conventions and the line items that get missed until week two. Written for producers building a schedule from outside the region.
Coming soonQuarterly. Ninety seconds. What is shooting across the region, one problem solved on location, and where I will be. Field Notes go deeper on whatever the issue raises.