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board to oversee post. Our job has become more involved, more time consuming and more complicated.”


Dynamic duo Samantha Winter ( Giri / Haji, Sitting In Limbo,


Granchester) and Reiko Shimazaki (Soulmates) work together. “For the last year and a half Reiko and I have worked as a team,” says Winter. “There has become an increasing trend of partnerships in the post production supervision [PPS] world. The jobs are getting longer and longer, often a year per show, and the stress and responsibility of the role can make it extremely


TOGETHER BBC Film, Shoebox Films, Sonia Friedman Productions


Gisela Evert worked closely with facility The Farm on comedy-drama TV film Together for BBC Two. “It started life in February this year, and we shot it over 10 working days in May,” she recalls. “We had the broadcast date for 17 June and we locked the picture around 28 May. To be ready for the final mix, with the effects, titles and all the soundtrack laying done, was extremely challenging, but I had a fantastic team.” The challenge was met by tight planning and workflow discussions, enhanced by Evert’s experience and close relationships with the producers, The Farm, editing equipment firm Salon, CineLab and On Set Tech for the Dailies. “Editor Úna Ní Dhonghaíle was based in Dublin and her assistant was in the


Midlands. They had to turn around materials and send it up twice a day [to the director] while we were shooting,” says Evert, who deployed SalonSync technology to turn around the dailies process. “We conformed the picture very early on, so we could start a bit of pre-grade as the DoP was going off on another project. We had the sound team working simultaneously with editorial to work on the sound design and polishing dialogue for ADR. We also had to do ADR while we were editing to try and stay on track. “You have to be creative and come up with solutions, be willing to talk to people and discuss how to make things work, especially when working remotely,” she adds. “You have to go outside the box.”


difficult to take time off and juggle family life. “A PPS duo can allow cover for each other


and the chance to solve problems together, as well as the advantage of different strengths and skillsets which can complement and enhance,” she continues. “We often joke that Reiko is the Yin to my Yang!” Such partnerships can work as post producer/


post supervisor split, sometimes they are both a post supervisor, or they split the rate and work on two shows at once. “This can also help with working on more of


a variety of shows and with different companies, which can become more limited given the long run of the individual jobs,” says Winter. “How a duo splits the work will vary, it can be that one focuses more on sound and the other on picture, one looks after music, the other VFX for example.” Ideally, Winter and Shimazaki will be hired


well in advance of prep so that they can be involved in both the initial Post Schedule draft,


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