Integrity will make people respect themselves and make them honor themselves more. Talk to them straightforwardly and sincerely, never judging, and always listening. You’re not sh*t because you have people “under” you, technically speaking. “Complaints go up, not down.” Don’t Treat Your Crew Like Kids Know when to take one for your team and know when to let your team take it.
#First assistant camera how to
Know how to deliver the bad news just like the good news.
Photo by Justin Robinson Take Care of Your People Diego Montielĭiego Montiel is known for his work on Unhinged, Into the ashes, and I Can Only Imagine. Therefore, I asked a few professional camera assistants to dig deeper into a few skills and qualities that a solid 1st AC should have. I find that sharing knowledge is vital in preparing aspiring filmmakers.
A camera department is only great when they’re a great team. What separates the average camera assistant from next-level, is whether or not they have the DP and the entire department’s needs in mind, or just their own needs. I’ve worked with a handful of focus pullers that can in fact, pull focus, but are total nightmares to work with, which in my experience, isn’t always the best trade-off. The time in between takes is where leadership, or the lack of, is on full display.Ī turning point in my camera assistant learning curve was seeing the crucial way a 1st AC would lead the camera department, for better or for worse. There is a lot more time on set spent waiting to roll versus actually rolling. Granted, it’s a bizarre and magical skill to keep an entire movie in focus, but being a good 1st AC is about a lot more than just keeping sharp focus. When the camera is rolling, the job of the 1st AC is to pull focus. “A focus puller, or 1st assistant camera, is a member of a film crew’s camera department, whose primary responsibility is to maintain image sharpness on whatever subject or action is being filmed.”
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