Icontrerens

From the desk

Short notes we send to the floor: light in hall C, a street we walked, how the folder is named.

North window in hall C, Chișinău
Hall C, 10:20, 12 Oct

North window in November

From mid-October the north window in hall C stops pretending it is summer. The courtyard wall opposite goes grey. Skin needs a half-stop more, and the cyclorama reads as paper, not as a glow. This is the season we prefer for catalogues: no hard patch on a shoulder, no bounce that turns wool yellow.

We open the blind fully until 11:30, then drop it a third so the window does not clip. The 2k stays off unless a dark coat eats the edge. If a brief asks for “bright summer” in November, we say no and offer a recce in June, or we light it as November and write that on the estimate.

Last week a rail of 14 coats sat from 09:40 to 16:10. The 11:00 slot was the cleanest. After 15:30 the courtyard went green from a neighbour’s lamp. We wrapped rather than correct it in finishing. The folder still went out on the Friday as written.

Limestone facade on a quiet Chișinău street
str. Columna, 11:15

Recce on str. Columna

Columna is a working street, not a set. Tram wires from the boulevard still catch a 24 mm. A van parks in the only clean elevation. We recce at the hour of the shoot, not the day before at noon if the job is 16:00.

On 28 September we walked from București to Columna with a stills body and a 50. Three fronts were usable; one had a satellite dish we could not crop without losing the balcony iron. We wrote the dish on the shot list and asked the client to pick another door. They picked the door.

Permits for the pavement are the client’s. We send the shot list 24 hours ahead so they can move a car. If the car is still there, we wait or we change height. We do not “fix it in colour.” Chișinău limestone goes cream in overcast and dirty yellow in late sun. We choose the hour; we do not grade a street into another city.

Finishing desk where folders are named and sent
Desk, evening after wrap

A dated folder

Every job on this floor gets a code the day we take the brief. IC, a number, the date we promise the folder. Selects are not the delivery. Selects are a look so you can kill a frame before we retouch dust on a coat for four hours.

Stills: selects next working day, folder in 4 working days for a one-day hall job. Film: selects the morning after wrap, grade on the date in the call sheet — 7 working days under two minutes, longer if the sheet says so. One revision if it is listed in the brief. A second revision is a new line on the invoice.

The link goes to the mail on the call sheet, not to a group chat. We keep the masters 18 months, then we delete them unless you write to keep a copy. That is also in the terms, with the Chișinău address, because that is where the drives sit.

If the note matches the job, write

North window, a street recce, or a dated folder — same mail.

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