Role1st AD
Unit baseLondon
FormatHETV · Feature · Commercials
TravelWorldwide
WillJasper
First Assistant Director / 20 years
The director’s vision.
My responsibility.
Trusted to run complex, high-stakes productions for Apple, Fox, HBO, Netflix, Amazon and the BBC, with budgets reaching $200 million.
Represented by UTA
- Apple TV+
- HBO
- Netflix
- Amazon
- Hulu
- Showtime
- CBS Studios
- AMC
- Sky Atlantic
- BBC
- ITV
Profile
Calm on the floor at any scale.
Will Jasper is a London-based First Assistant Director with twenty years’ experience on feature films, high-end television and commercials. He has run sets for Oscar and BAFTA-winning directors and heads of department, with A-list casts, on shows with budgets up to $200m.
He is at home on large-scale multi-camera shoots heavy with VFX, SFX and stunts, and just as committed to intimate narrative and indie drama.
20Years as 1st AD
$200mLargest budget
60+Productions
15Countries filmed
In the chair
Directors Will has partnered
On set
Running the floor
Selected work
On the call sheet
Production board
Every strip
TelevisionFeaturesShortsCommercials
Experience
No day too difficult
- Marine
- Underwater filming in open ocean and tanks. Multi-boat marine shoots. PADI certified, Competent Crew sailor.
- Aerial
- Helicopters, drones and aerial camera units. Technocranes, U-cranes and A-frames.
- Action
- Stunts, set pieces, fight scenes, riots, explosions, weapons, horse work and one-shots.
- Camera & tech
- Multi-camera, motion control, motion capture, volume stages, high speed and tracking vehicles.
- Cast & crowd
- A-list cast, SAG contracts, children, animals, large crowds and period pieces.
- Locations
- Remote locations, mountains, frozen lakes, deserts and live events.
Unit moves