{"id":736,"date":"2025-05-23T10:41:20","date_gmt":"2025-05-23T09:41:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jusmedia.co.uk\/studioinsider\/?p=736"},"modified":"2025-06-06T16:12:25","modified_gmt":"2025-06-06T15:12:25","slug":"the-secret-of-making-it-behind-the-screens-assistant-director-edition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jusmedia.co.uk\/studioinsider\/2025\/05\/23\/the-secret-of-making-it-behind-the-screens-assistant-director-edition\/","title":{"rendered":"The secret of making it behind the screens: Assistant Director edition"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1106\" height=\"737\" data-src=\"https:\/\/jusmedia.co.uk\/studioinsider\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/34\/2025\/06\/EBF32F8E-C539-46F0-AC44-7AEEFC168A28-1-edited.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2206 lazyload\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 1106px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 1106\/737;width:670px;height:auto\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Becky Topping at work\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-9e117b8bb9d2a66901f7fe1a1bdcf631\"><em>Becky Topping tells the story of how she got involved in TV production as an assistant director, how she rose th<\/em>r<em>ough the ranks, what it really takes to work behind the scenes and how Covid actually helped her to get into the job.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-719fb5d3b12cc89589f9ff52496a444e\">From working on ITV\u2019s The Bay, Brassic and Adolescence, Becky has hands-on knowledge of what makes TV work as a third assistant director for TV and Film. She\u2019s been working behind the scenes for four years and has climbed her way up on the ladder spurred on through her love of production. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-38474953fb92744849e56be7b1a416e2\">Here she tells us exactly what happened to get her where she is now, what challenges she faced along the way, some of her favourite moments and any advice for people who want to work in TV in the future.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>What is the job of a third assistant director?&nbsp;<\/strong><\/h1>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-bf5f8bfffa4ac6bc1ffb254964820d1c\">\u201cI\u2019ll do so many different things throughout the day, just making sure that everyone knows what they&#8217;re doing and sorting everything out.\u201d&nbsp; A third assistant director works with the crew to ensure that everything runs smoothly while on set: \u201cMy job basically means I get to a filming base in the morning and sort out crew radios, so we can all communicate on set.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-e5970a8db7e0f4e2b5f23153535bb9ea\">\u201cI get the call sheets ready, these are just documents we we have everyday with all the times and cast in that day and what scenes we\u2019re filming, and then make sure that every crew member has one to go off.\u201d&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-eca37d29300c90bceea46805a10c503d\">Communication on set is vital to make sure that everyone stays in the loop. This doesn&#8217;t just fall onto the crew members, background actors are usually an overlooked part of filming. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote has-vivid-red-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-a530358ddf72a453e7f335ad9935bfd0 is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"has-vivid-red-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-b21b033f826e3b5a572dfce62d2dcf7e\"><strong>\u201cI also direct the background artists, just putting them in the back of a shot doing whatever they need to do, whether it&#8217;s in a cafe or a park, I\u2019ll direct their action to fit the scene.\u201d&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-9d78fef98a754b4ebc2a103cfe68388e\">It\u2019s also important in her job to be constantly adapting to change, this can come in the form of moving from location to location, being continually aware of what is being filmed next or even adapting to different expressions or jargon that are used on sets.&nbsp; <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-a49772dcb6d7527cc289e0422ef60587\">\u201cThey would typically be known as extras, though we don&#8217;t use this anymore, we use SAs which stands for supporting artists.\u201d&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"841\" height=\"1024\" data-src=\"https:\/\/jusmedia.co.uk\/studioinsider\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/34\/2025\/05\/IMG_2418-841x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1768 lazyload\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 841px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 841\/1024;width:369px;height:auto\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Becky working on Adolescence<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Working her way up<\/strong><\/h1>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-cebd8c822fe0923c357b96551a4400f7\">\u201cI got into this whole thing by meeting a producer at uni who gave me an opportunity to do some work based experience on a Liverpool based tv series called Tin Star.\u201d&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-d3a39cb82ab1b64a491aa1d750604940\">Becky attended the University of Liverpool, where she got her degree in English literature and Media and Communications, it was here that she gained the knowledge and experience that she\u2019d carry forward into her job.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-2307cce60ba6e874565ae729877cf885\">\u201cIt was unpaid, which would never happen now, but I absolutely loved it at the time and it got my foot in the door.\u201d She worked in the assistant director team as a floor runner during 2019, giving Becky her first taste of working on a real tv set and allowing her to realise that this was what she wanted to pursue for her career.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-dc1ee620852d914fa8ce635ba6a5c5b2\">\u201cI think at the time I realised fully that this is what I wanted to do, I\u2019d always thought about it in school and then uni but actually being able to do it was a completely different thing. It made me realise that if all these other people here were doing this for a career then I could too.\u201d&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>The effect of Covid<\/strong><\/h1>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-b73ec4f9b7a2fa962b2dddc08b4e4dfa\">After filming finished, covid hit in early 2020 and Becky was forced to go into a more \u201cconventional\u201d line of work with film and TV sets being shut down all across the world. During this time, tv production was put on the back burner as lockdown loomed and no one could safely meet in large groups. Two meter distances were enforced meaning that filming was made nearly impossible and the tv industry took a large hit.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-8cd361536112d17e0e2b917f0971f384\">Though, through covid, new ways were made to make film sets a safer place during the pandemic and therefore opened up entirely new job roles. \u201cThe producer that I\u2019d met in uni got back in touch with me about a year into the pandemic and said he had a new company called Clean Sets\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-1ffb4562367966ab60a8121370865da4\">\u201cHe wanted to see if I would be a covid cleaner on film and TV sets, and obviously I said yes. So I got back into it through Covid weirdly.\u201d Even after getting back into production, Becky knew it wasn\u2019t exactly what she wanted to do, \u201cI wanted to be an assistant director\u201d.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-bf0d50abdc39aa64636012135acb617b\">As a covid cleaner on set, she was tasked with ensuring everyone had the safety equipment needed, including masks. While working on this set for ITV\u2019s crime drama \u201cThe Bay\u201d, she spoke to the assistant director crew: \u201cI ended up just going to the AD team and asking \u2018I really want to be a runner, can I get in?\u2019&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Making an impression <\/strong><\/h1>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-d0ee88726ca41daa90638dc7cdd22997\">Based on the previous work that she had done and the dedication she clearly showed to the craft, the team were able to get her working with them as a runner on different shows. \u201cThey ended up taking me under their wing and telling me that they&#8217;d get me in for some dailies on some other jobs.\u201d&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote has-vivid-red-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-d7f6a12b09b5cfa90ebd7fa18eef7480 is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"has-vivid-red-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-7b98d85f8d5ba09af7194c8582fe54e2\"><strong>\u201cIf I didn\u2019t ask them, then I probably wouldn\u2019t be doing what I\u2019m doing now, it got my name back in the game.\u201d&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-2c7d425e57402523896d54df35f81cfe\">Becky has now been working in TV production for four years and she doesn\u2019t see herself stopping any time soon. It\u2019s clear that she loves everything about both TV and film, so much so that she has dedicated herself to its production. While we don\u2019t know what&#8217;s coming next, we do know that she won\u2019t stop being involved in tv. 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