From the course: Making a Short Film: Start to Finish

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Rehearsals

Rehearsals

From the course: Making a Short Film: Start to Finish

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Rehearsals

- You've got the perfect cast in place, and now it's time to be thinking about the rehearsal process. Now it's true that when you're an independent creator and you're just starting out and you're working on things that are low-budget, you're probably not going to have a ton of time for rehearsal, but it's good to take advantage of the time that you do have. And that's because rehearsals do a couple of things. Obviously, as the name implies, it allows you to hone and sort of fine-tune the performances you're going to need to create on set, which is important because you're not necessarily going to have a ton of time on set, so you need to make sure that you're walking on, knowing what it is that you're going to get, and then the other thing too is it allows you to build a relationship and build trust with your cast, which is really important because your cast members are some of the most important collaborators you have on…

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