"Life on the Film Set" Podcast
A podcast about how to work on a film set and be great at it.
With Nick Payne and George Artin.
Made by humans without the use of AI
Episodes
Ep. 1 Welcome to "Life on the Film Set"
14th July 2024 | 17 minutes
Introducing Nick Payne and George Artin, two passionate filmmakers and friends, connected through working on many film projects together. In this podcast, they introduce themselves and talk about what the "Life on the Film Set" podcast is about, and why they're doing it.
Ep. 2 Leading and Following
14th July 2024 | 42 minutes
Working on a film set fundamentally involves interacting and cooperating with other people. So how do you effectively lead and follow? In this episode we talk about using "intent" as a way of directing others and communicating what you intend to do. We also touch on how to have "hard" conversations with others.
Ep. 3 Getting work flowing
28th July 2024 | 43 minutes
Film sets are busy places with lots of things going on at once. How do you organise a film set to ensure that all this different work flows together to achieve the making of a film? When is the right time to muck in and help others and when is it better to give people space to do their own job?
Ep. 4 Fuelling innovation on set
11th August 2024 | 55 minutes
We all want to make films that are as good as they can be and that impact and inspire our audiences. But so often we find ourselves rushing and compromising our art instead of giving everything the care and attention it deserves. So how do you set up the environment on set to create the environment for innovation to occur? Hint... it's fuelling people for collaboration.
Ep. 5 Estimating work
25th August 2024 | 52 minutes
Have you ever been given a call sheet and thought to yourself "they must be dreaming"? How many times have you felt yourself compromising your work in order to meet a schedule that's plainly ridiculous?! In this episode we talk about some techniques for estimating and planning work in order to create more realistic plans resulting in better work being created.
Ep. 6 Building culture
8th September 2024 | 49 minutes
You might think the experience and skills of important crew members determine the success of a film project. But how many times have you been on a set with a super capable crew who just can't work together? And have you been on a set with an inexperienced crew who performed beyond their capability because of their ability to work together with each other? This is the realm of "culture". In this episode we talk about how to create culture in order to maximise your chances of creating a film that is great.
Hosts
Nick Payne
From shooting silent Super 8 in high school through to Super VHS in the 90’s film was always rooted in Nick’s brain. Eventually it disturbed him so much that he quit his corporate job and started working on film sets.
In doing so he realised that the stuff he used to teach about in his old world — namely leadership, project management, and team building — was super relevant to how film sets are organised and optimised for greatness. With not much bugging from George he decided to make this podcast to help and inspire others.
George Artin
He used to be a mechanic before running a coffee shop. He’s now the world’s funnest Assistant Camera-person. George embodies our values and always goes out of his way to help and teach others on set.
George brings a wealth of real-world experience and stories about how to be great when working on a film set.
The rest of the team
We’ve been blessed with an amazing team giving their time to help make this podcast a reality.
So our heartfelt thanks goes out to…
- Ian Tamawidjaja our cinematographer making us look great (@ian.tama_dp)
- Ella Richards our assistant camera-person (@ellastone.dop)
- David Do our sound recordist (@davidsbizarreaudio)
- Joseph Hopkins our graphic designer (@joehootly)
- Jolin Jiang for composing our theme music (@jolinjiangmusic)
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