The director
was given a budget and told to go off and do it, nobody at the
production company had any experience of film. The director then
picked the 10 commercials that he liked best at the time and checked
who the DP of each was. As I was the DP of 3 of them I got the
job!
We nearly lost
a sequence when someone shouted to cut because the spray and rain
was too bad. Luckily I managed to get them to continue as I was
perfectly able to see what was happening because of the spinning
rain deflector I was using, even though everyone else was blinded
by spraying rain & sand at the time!!
We had a radio
message during frame 3 that one of the kids in the back of the
boat was getting sick, I'm afraid I showed the sympathetic side
of a cameraman who is fighting the light "don't worry, it's
a wide shot, we won't see him throw up"
I also forgot that we'd left a spark out on the tower in the sea
with a Xenon, we had to find a boat to get him back at midnight.
