Life On Set

Three Rules

Matt D'Avella

Self-improvement, Education

4.9 • 2.5K Ratings

🗓️ 21 June 2017

⏱️ 89 minutes

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Summary

Matthew Webb is the author of Set Life: A Guide to Getting a Job in Film (And Keeping It). In this episode of Ground Up he shares his journey of making videos with his friends (and lighting them on fire) to being an Assistant Director on blockbuster’s like Pirates of the Caribbean, Mad Max & The Great Gatsby. His story is inspiring for anyone looking to break into a new field.

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0:00.0	Was there any points where you felt like I'm not ready for this?
0:04.9	Holy shit.
0:05.5	Like every job.
0:07.7	Seriously.
0:08.4	Yeah.
0:13.0	Can I get an introduction from you?
0:15.3	So your name and what it is that you do.
0:17.7	Hi, I'm Matt Webb.
0:18.9	I'm an assistant director and producer from Sydney, Australia, now living in New York.
0:24.1	I'm going to pull up your IMDB because you've worked on some pretty damn awesome projects.
0:32.7	Hacksaw Ridge.
0:33.8	That was pretty recent, right?
0:35.0	Yeah.
0:35.8	Yeah, so that was, we shot that in the last half of 2015.
0:39.9	Oh, shit.
0:40.4	And then released last year.
0:41.9	Dude, I, um, Natalie and I were in Melbourne, actually.
0:45.8	And we were staying at this, like, it was like a bougie tent hotel on top of a roof at some
0:52.3	hotel.
0:54.0	Uh, and then she wanted to go to a museum. I don't really
0:57.4	like museums. Like, they're cool, but I'm not really that big into them. And then I saw Haxall
1:02.2	Ridge was playing, so I went to Haxall Ridge. On your own? Yeah, on my own, by myself. And it was
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