Well I’ve been shadowing Joseph for the last couple of days, working on The Promise poster. Yesterday we had sushi for lunch, thai for dinner, and worked until 5.30 am listening to Slayer and Pantera. Hardcore. If only he had actually listened to me in the first place, we’d have been out of there by 2, tops! But its getting there.
Migs.
Today is the launch of the 8th series of Shameless. To mark this monumental occasion, everyone at 4Creative has come to work in wife beater vests, and they were handing out free cans of Sella in the canteen. I love this job.
Migs.
So the weekend began with a bang. I’m not talking about the copious amounts of lager beers we drank on the way down to The Lakeside, or Stephens superb rendition of Wonderwall (in a scauser accent) on the coach’s karaoke machine, or even Molly laughing so much that she wet herself (for real!). No i”m not talking about that kind of a Bang. We actually had a crash. Lets just say that trying to snog the driver whilst he was actually driving probably wasn’t the greatest idea Al.
But we didn’t just crash into anyone. We actually crashed into Segal. (Yes, ‘the’ Segal). Those of you in the know, will know that Segal is actually the dude behind the theme tunes to Skins. (Check out his dope interview here) Fortunately for us, we had Neil Gorringe (creative director for E4) on the bus with us. And fortunately for us they are mates. And fortunately for us there was very little damage to our coach. Unfortunately for Segal, the same could not be said of his vehicle. But, as lady luck would have it, he was heading to The Lakeside too. (Apparently he too is a mega darts fan!?!) So before you know it, we were 4Creative+1.
The rest of the weekend was a blur. But poor lakeside. They really weren’t prepared for such a rawkus bunch of professional alcoholics. And they certainly weren’t prepared for Tom Powell (digital producer, i think?) streaking during the Semi finals on Saturday night. Play was disrupted, and the whole debacle was caught on camera, but i’ve traweled the internet and can’t find the footage anywhere. That cost us the finals. (Adams won by the way) We got thrown out, bailed Tom out of the local constabulary on Sunday morning, and headed back to London with one mother of a hangover. Heavy shit.
Miguel.
OK, my mistake. There are more people at 4Creative. About 50 of them. And they are all Darts fans (what the fuck?). And they are all sat in a big-ass bus outside the main building waiting for me. Lakeside here we come!
Migs.
Man, shooting smoke is fucking boring (”complete free reign” – see my first post, you suckers). It all looks the same to me, but Joseph and Julian and Sean (retoucher) seemed really excited with the whole thing. They must of taken thousands of shots. Everyone at the shoot seemed super busy, so i sat around all morning watching them, bored off my skull. And then Tabby and Brian showed up to save the day.
Who would have thought a simple darts board could provide so many hours of amusement. There were about 25 people there today, and everyone had a go – even Ed (he’s crap). But one of the riggers got thrashed by a girl from Artem, and completely lost his rag. He actually tried to punch her (no shit), but luckily Jack (production assistant at 4creative) managed to pull him back just in time, thus saving Artem girl from angry rigger – but not saving angry rigger from Artem girl’s steel toe cap boot. Her aim was perfect, and he went down shouting. Ed fired him on the spot, which was fair enough, but i was very impressed by this riggers extensive knowledge of expletives.
Suddenly this shoot wasn’t looking so boring at all. Smoke, explosions, a sacking, a fight, and darts. Speaking of which, there’s a 4Creative night out this Friday. They’re going to The Lakeside to watch the Semis (apparently Tom Tagholm, the boss, is also a big fan). And i have been invited. Fuckin’ A.
Miguel.
Day 2 at 4Creative. There were a few more people at the office today. At least 12 of them. Where the fuck is everyone? Ed was saying they are all shooting stuff, but he sounded cagey about it.
Went down to the set of The Promise today with Ed at a place called Black Island Studios. I met Tabby (producer), Joseph (creative), and Brian (director) who work at 4Creative. Maybe people do work there?!?
The talk of the day was Darts, obviously. Tabby is a die hard darts fan (who would have guessed?) and she’s just come back from a 3 day bender at the Lakeside. Tabby and Brian are rooting for Martin Adams. But can Wolfie really win the world championship again? I’m not so sure. I think Dekker is looking strong. Prima!
Artem are working through the night to get things ready for The Promise. It looks money. I met the photographer, Julian Walkenstein, and tomorrow they are shooting explosions and smoke and things. I begged Ed to let me come tomorrow to see it all. I won’t tell you what he made me do (boy does he have a dirty mind), but in the end the man, he say yes.
Miguel.
Today was my first day as an intern at 4Creative. Which is pretty awesome. Or it would be, had they bothered to show up. Apparently today was a Bankers Holiday, so only the hardcore were in. You know who you are (Ed, Zung). Anyways, it seems this blog has been neglected, so it’s been given to me to flex my fingers with. I have been given “complete free reign” by Ed. I can write anything i like. Shit, i can even swear if i want to. (Mega!)
After cleaning out the stationary cupboard (you have never seen such a well stocked stationary cupboard in all your life – its more like a small room – i was sent down to a place called Artem to see the preparations for a shoot that’s happening this week for a new drama called The Promise (can i say this? – Fuck it, i have “complete free reign”)
Artem is a top special effects place. Unlike 4Creative, it was crawling with people, working away on a massive model they are shooting later this week. I will keep you posted. Literally.
Miguel.
Olivia one of our business directors lost both her left shoe and her right shoe while demonstrating her moonwalk at Campaign Photo last night. They are red and expensive is all she can tell us. If anyone has them please let us know. She is having to wear espadrilles in the meantime.
On a happier note I hear that we were finalists in a couple of categories with work from Dan Pothecary for China’s Stolen Children, Tim Simmons for Lost for Words and Dean Rogers for Red Riding. We won in Media & Entertainment for the Skins 2 campaign by Simen Johan working with Alice.
Who is now on her way to Bestival and probably is blissfully unaware. Nice one Alice, see you there.
Joseph is back from skidoo-land. He has fractured his entire ear – the footage of the crash though is amazing. Will try to get him to post it here.
That’s all for now. Thanks for reading.
The Intern (hopefully not for long)
P.S. People are stealing my ideas.
Joseph fractured his toe
SKINS 2 WON THE MEDIA & ENTERTAINMENT CATEGORY! Yeah!
NEARLY FORGOT! !
How COOL is this? We are ALL going to be working from Bestival this weekend. Brett just said what the F&*$ yesterday (he actually said it like that – it sounded totally weird) pack your sleeping bags we’re all going.
So if you see a bunch of directors and writers and producers hanging out in an old Airstream caravan (it has an old mikebeer stencil on the side) come and say hello. Best Job Ever.
I will mainly be in charge of fetching drinks. But hey, I’m not complaining.
Ed has asked that we bring a portable shower. More from Bestival later! Woohooooo!
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