From the course: Video Producing
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Scene scheduling case study
- We're going to review an actual production plan later, but here's how I scheduled the filming of one scene from Water Science with Wade. Now, in the scene, my actor is standing on the shore of a lake. He's in a rain slicker and it's raining on him. He has to deliver 10 seconds of dialog without a teleprompter and this is a completely standalone scene, meaning it's not something I can shoot as part of a group of scenes. Okay, I have a crew of nine, including myself and the actor. We're shooting with a small DSLR style camera with six mini LED lights and a seven inch producer monitor, wireless microphones, and a shotgun microphone. It's late June in Georgia. The temperature is scheduled to be 92 degrees with high humidity. As part of pre-production planning, I did a site survey of the lake location, so I know we have to walk the gear approximately 200 yards from where we're going to park to where we're going to film the scene. I'm allocating 45 minutes to get the gear out of the…
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