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07/11/07
MODELS OF EFFICIENCY, ON A SMALL SCALE
Reprinted courtesy of the Dominion Post
Size matters for these Wellington film school graduates, and small is good.
Some of the graduates from The Film School in Wellington are downsizing their careers, in the best possible way. Three of the school's graduates – Damian Seagar, Aleks Sakowski and Naomi Wallwork – are working for the miniatures unit of Wimbleweather Productions, which is doing effects work for Prince Caspian, the next in the Narnia series of movies. The miniatures shooting unit is part of the visual effects department of a film, and involves shooting the effects footage of scale models of sets and other elements, which are then blended with the other shots.
Belindalee Hope, production manager for the miniatures unit says all three graduates share a hardworking, yet easygoing, attitude.
Mr Seagar joined the unit as a lighting trainee under the guidance of Alex Funke, the supervising director of visual effects photography, who has worked on special effects on everything from the original Battlestar Galactica to Total Recall and Lord of the Rings.
"Damian is a great person to have on the crew and in the lighting team," Ms Hope says. "He is so passionate about what he does and he enjoys his work and makes every opportunity to learn, which in turn brings a lot to the lighting team."
Mr Sakowski, who studied at the school in 2005, has started work as a model assistant in the department.
"He seems to be always looking to learn from the others, while still delivering model work to the best of his abilities. He has also taken on an additional role as crew photographer and he has a great eye, taking some very artful photographs," Ms Hope says.
Ms Wallwork joined the unit as Ms Hope's production assistant when the unit was shooting the miniatures for The Dambusters movie.
"I was so impressed with her organisational and practical skills, and also her attitude and spirit," Ms Hope says. "Any and every task I threw at her, from the most boring to the quite complex, was handled with aplomb and every detail methodically taken care of."
Ms Wallwork says her job with the miniatures unit came after working for the Crew Booking Agency, which in turn came from contacts she made via the school near the end of her course in 2005. The Film School course equipped her with the knowledge of what everyone's role is in a film crew and what the equipment being used is all about, she says. "So when you come on the set of a production you know the state of play more than you otherwise would. And you know a lot of people who you are dealing with on the crew because they have come in and tutored at the school or spoken to you before."