Filming for TV pilot titled 'Cuts!'

Filming ‘Cuts!’ took place over two weeks, with the final outside scene to be captured on Wednesday, I guess that day was chosen for the fine sunshine it promises.

Zsolt Kollanyi on camera.

It’s incredible how much effort goes into a short segment of video, the process gets slowed down so that fixing segments of dialogue and action in the digital matrix – the complex series of ones and zeroes that make up a computer file – is endlessly repeated until the director is happy with what he’s seen.

Saya Minami and Tim Morrison do a take, the show is set in a fictional barber shop.

Miyo Koseki wrote the script with Zsolt Kollanyi who not only directed ‘Cuts!’ but also took on the cinematographer’s role, both instructing the players in how to move, where to stand, where to look, what to say, but furthermore operating the camera. I sometimes held the boom, and also supplied coffees and teas to cast during breaks and in the interval before filming started. 

Learning a lot in a short time. The green room was in my living room and the back deck was for makeup.

Taking a break for a meal.