( Gallery )

The unglamorous half.

Shot lists, the lighting before anyone sits down, the folder as it goes out. The part that makes twenty in a morning possible, rather than the part that looks good in a portfolio.

The room, lit — 16:9

The set standing before anyone arrives

Shot list — 4:5

Twenty, in running order

Key light — 4:5

Set once, struck after

Sound — 4:5

Levelled before you sit down

The chair — 4:5

Where the month gets made

Mid-session — 16:9

Take eleven of twenty

The edit — 16:9

Captions burned in, not overlaid

The delivered folder — 16:9

Numbered, named, sized for three platforms

Nothing here is stock Placeholders until the first session

These plates are waiting on real photographs of this room. They stay empty rather than borrowed — a gallery of somebody else’s studio would be the least useful page on the site.