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THE STAR WARS SHOW

A WEEK ON THE ST AR W ARS SHOW
- Production Diary -
John Harper

DIRECT OR AND PR ODUCER

We have a stacked week, shooting our show on Monday with questions to Daisy Ridley, but we also want to add video clips
several field shoots, interviewing Ron Howard in Los Angeles on of fans asking questions themselves, and some movie clips.

Tuesday, covering Mark Hamill’s Walk of Fame ceremony and We shoot our closing sequence first, saving our open/news
getting Gentle Giant b-roll (also in L.A.) on Thursday, and doing section for after our meeting, in case any extra news comes
a livestream with Daisy Ridley in London on Friday. My main job in. The set is basically ready to go before we leave on Friday,
is to oversee all of the video production. There is an overlap with so as soon as Anthony lands we put everyone into the room
Scott, but I oversee the edits, set up all of our shoots, book crews, and bang out the close within five minutes. Kyle, Frank, and I

work with legal, deal with equipment upgrades, and so forth. then switch over the room in another five minutes to shoot the
I directly oversee Frank Knight, our editor, and Kyle Kao open/news after the meeting.
who does a little bit of everything, but I work with a team In the afternoon we have a meeting to go over our video
of eight others. Scott Bromley and myself are the producers, strategy for Emmy nominations, then head for the airport, only
Mickey Capoferri is the executive producer, Dana Jennings to find out that Ron Howard has had to push his interview into

and Andi Gutierrez are associate producers, Tony Sherg does next week. I ask the driver to turn around and rebook my travel
graphics, Anina Walas is our coordinator, and Andi and for Wednesday evening.

Anthony Carboni are the hosts. In the afternoon, we send out the first cut of the show to
our own team and to legal.
Monday
I start my day on a call with Facebook in London, ahead of a Tuesday
half-hour livestream we are putting on in conjunction with I spend most of my unexpectedly free Tuesday by looking at
Disney Home Video. This is basically Andi reading out fan upcoming shoots. I work on logistics for the Daisy live chat, pull
movie clips, come up with an approval strategy for the questions,
and work with legal to make sure we can show videos of fans
asking questions. I make sure we are all set with our press badges
and logistics for the Walk of Fame shoot and oversee the show
edits. We have two upcoming sponsored shoots that take more
work than a usual shoot. One of these is in conjunction with Solo
Cup, for which we are creating a Millennium Falcon completely
out of Solo Products, so I work with 32Ten (the production studio

building the Falcon) to figure out what size we can actually make
it, collect assets from the internal image unit, and make sure they
are getting all of the Solo product they need.

Wednesday
The launch of the show goes off okay, once some small legal
01 / A Star Wars Show crew member films the action at Celebration London. snafus have been dealt with. After getting all of the necessary

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