From the course: Creating a Short Film: 06 Working on Set
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Keeping up the mood on set
From the course: Creating a Short Film: 06 Working on Set
Keeping up the mood on set
- On any job, it's tough to keep up morale and in the crazy wilderness of filmmaking whereas it's not really as regulated as a typical job setting, this is especially true. When you go out to work at your average job, you typically know your hours, what to expect. You usually expect break at exact times and your performance usually doesn't have anything to do with what time you leave for the day. And there's usually no worry that business might shut down at any minute because it ran out of money. But none of these things are true on most low-budget film sets. It's a jungle out there folks and it can be a recipe for frustration. So it's important to keep up the mood on set. From my experience, the big crew positions, the DP, the first AD, the director, they all establish the tone and mood of the set. And if they're lazy or stressed out or disrespectful, the whole crew tends to follow their lead. This is another reason why I chose Gavin Booth as my first AD. We're both serious about…
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