FILMIAU FONDU - CWCW

Welsh Language Film based on the life of a soap opera actress/scriptnwriter, she struggles to make sense of the world as the boundaries between her real life and that of her on screen character become entangled and confused. Cwcw lives up to its name as many on set could also be seen scratching their heads with furrowed brows at times, but also delight in the humour and poignancy of some of the scenes. It was wonderful to work with a welsh cast and crew that become like a big family, although the 'GOG' welsh heard on set was often more confusing than the script!

Im looking forward to seeing the final edit of the film as it does the theatre and film festival circuit so I think it will be well worth a look even to the non welsh speakers.

While on Cwcw, I worked with the DOP, Focus puller and rigger along with another trainee, ahot on High Definition Video (Sony 900R) As well as the usual clapper board and marking actors (although this time marking the board in welsh was occassionaly more of a challenge as I seemed to get some weird form of dyslexia between the numbers 4 and 5!) there was also setting up the video monitors and getting all the equipment ready. Working on Cwcw was a great opportunity to see and also work with many different people as we were in close contact with each department - you could really see the importance of everybody's roles. I learnt about lighting for different conditions and effects as we used a lot of indoor sets, the DOP had a major input to the setting of the lights and the different effects achieved through the use of different tubes, filters and white balance. I loved helping the grip set up the crane, arm and tracks and there was also a lot of opportunity to see how shots are constructed as well as using many Steadycam shots. Because I also want to do underwater camerawork, the best part for me was going down to London to observe the underwater shoot in which they used 35mm film.