The Christmas rush, never truer words said for a Christmas campaign, a 3-week turnaround production that included the full bells and whistles. Shoot, grade, sound design / mix, VO and social online, which, somehow, almost like a miracle, was delivered on schedule and on budget.

For this production, I took the lead on the full post schedule and workflow, whilst working closely with Josh as he produced the 2-day shoot. I decided early on that I’d attend the shoot with our editor Adrian, where Josh and I agreed we could set up camp with the DIT unit to seamlessly start editing master on-site as proxies became available.

By the end of the second day, we had approval for 4/6 offline edits, swiftly followed by approval for the remaining 2. I then kicked off grade & audio in parallel. And when juggling these sessions started to ease, I then engaged design to set our subs + end cards ahead of our final online review.

With many late nights, several taxis, and a few takeaways bribes to keep smiles all round, we delivered the full suite in all aspect ratios with a few hours to spare.