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Planning your schedule: Avoiding bottlenecks, keeping crew on schedule

Planning your schedule: Avoiding bottlenecks, keeping crew on schedule

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Planning your schedule: Avoiding bottlenecks, keeping crew on schedule

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- Here's a sample schedule. You can see there's some key blocks of time as well as some pad for getting from one location to the other. And that's what makes a good schedule. There's just no point in putting dozens of things on the schedule that you won't actually have time to shoot. I'll also mention that putting a crew on a 13 hour day for a jam packed shoot may cost you just as much, if not more, with overtime as two shorter days. And you'll probably get better footage on the two day shoot 'cause people won't be so tired. So, I've shown you two different kinds of schedules, the first one is a more involved, EFP shoot, where we had more people, more things to shoot, we were shooting a longer piece, multiple days, multiple locations. And now here's an example of a shorter ENG style shoot. Just one location, and we're kind of covering a lot of information, a lot of material, in some kind of sneaky ways where we kind of pop outside the primary location, get a few other shots that we…

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