‘My Last Day With Dad’ is a short film following three step-brothers from different backgrounds on the day of their adoptive father’s funeral. Married and business driven, Oscar is the most forthright of the three, spending his days in the City working on global financial deals. Middle-child Leon is a dreamer. Unsure on what he wants out of life, he has taken as many opportunities to see the world, rather than focus on what’s in front of him. Finally Tom, the youngest, shyest of the three, he never left his Dad’s side through his fight with illness and the last days of his life. Now, all back home for the first time in years, will their grief unite a broken family, or damage them beyond repair?

The shoot was to take place across 2 days in July 2024 at the family house of the Producer Justin.

Once Justin the Producer approached us, our first tasks were to attend a location recce and put our crew together. Luckily, we had a wide network of professionals in the North who we could call on - so gathered a team mainly made up of people we had worked with on our previous projects.

We completed the entire pre-production process including bespoke risk assessments, call sheets and budgeted the entire product to fit with the client’s facilities. Luke in his position as DOP completed the shot list with Director Georgie. Following that, we both put together a detailed schedule to complete the 47 shots across the tight 2 days shooting time we had to play with.

John took on the role of Assistant Director for the shoot, while assisting Director Georgie, Producer Justin and our DOP Luke in any way possible in a production capacity.

Following conclusion of the shoot, we oversaw the entire edit, colour grade and sound design, to deliver the product in time to be sumitted for the actors’ Masters Course at Royal Central.