From the course: Creating a Short Film: 06 Working on Set

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Changing the day on the fly

Changing the day on the fly

From the course: Creating a Short Film: 06 Working on Set

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Changing the day on the fly

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- On the last day of the main production I realized that the shooting schedule I had previously created just wouldn't work. We weren't going as quickly as I had anticipated that would would've and there's no way we could get the shots that we needed to have the scene make sense in just one shoot day. So instead of just plowing through I made the decision to scrap the whole original plan and start over. Because the shoot went late the night before I didn't have any time to make changes before I got to set. So here I am in production, on set, everybody's here and ready to work and waiting for me and ready to be done and go home and then I tell them that I need to start over and plan the day, it was humbling. But everyone was remarkable supportive while they waited. I grabbed a couple people from the crew to help me replan the day, I grabbed Gevin, our first AD, because he has so much experience in planning shoots and also because he's first AD and should be intimately familiar with the…

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