We decided in light of previous weekends, that realising now the possible difficulties we could face in the filming process, we could hopefully avoid these this coming weekend. Here are some notes on that meeting.
- Everybody knowning what time and where we are meeting to film
- Actors not being prepared for the film
- Broken equipment
- Leaving equipment at school
- Disobedient actors
- Not looking after the actors
- Not preparing the costume and props properly
- Messing around/time wasting on the shoot
- Not preparing a proper shooting script or shot log to make filming and editing easier
- Weather (please don't rain please don't rain please don't rain/snow)
- Thinking ahead with transport (bus strikes, breakdowns, traffic)
- Batteries running out
- Tape running out
- Not leaving enough space at the beginning and end of shots
- Lighting, too bright/too dark?
- Background noise
- Preparing against background noise (e.g. making sure phones don't go off (put phones on silent!))
- Not doing enough takes/not having enough material to edit
- Keeping equipment tidy, e.g. making sure cables are out of the way so nobody trips
- Distribute jobs evenly so everybody gets a go
- Keeping warm in cold weather
- Not leaving equipment on longer than needed (Jack, Kris and Shaun...)
- No late nights before the shoot!
We could continue for a while with pointless, over specific, pedantic points but we feel we covered all the main issues.
Nick, Simon, Matt, Daniel
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