What do you do when you've shot the master shot of a scene, re-set up all the lights for the tighter shots, then halfway through come up with an amazing idea that you're POSITIVE will make the scene a thousand times better? Do you incorporate that idea into your scene and say, "screw the master, I just won't use it?" Or do you go back and reshoot the master with the new idea incorporated?
Already shot wide - but want to change it in close-ups
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Billy Pilgrim
Stye in my eye
Maybe you could shoot your scene two different ways, and choose later, and maybe have your old idea to fall back on if your new one doesn't work. It's really your call though.
epsilonbass
Active member
Well if you are absolutely posititve it would make it a thousand times better, how could you live with yourself keeping the thousand times worst thing?
Re-shoot, just don't make a habit out of it, or else you'll never get done shooting. Plus if you don't have enough time that day, you should always have pick-up days planned for this or any other reason.
Re-shoot, just don't make a habit out of it, or else you'll never get done shooting. Plus if you don't have enough time that day, you should always have pick-up days planned for this or any other reason.
Brandon Rice
Distributed Producer
I try to never change my lighting setups from the master to CU's. Maybe a few tweaks here and there.
It depends on how the day is going. If the day is going well and you're ahead of schedule you could get away with reshooting the master shot. If day is going slow and you're behind schedule and you decide to reshoot anyway here's how it will probably go down:
Director: Oh man, look at that shot! It looks a thousand times better.
Producer: Yeah that's great. The only problem is we have 15 crew members on overtime that we don't have budgeted. I don't give a sh*t about what the shot looks like. How in the f#ck are we supposed to pay for this? Do you expect me to go the backers and tell them that the shot looks a thousand times better so they need to cough up more money? Why didn't you get the shot right the first time? Isn't that your job? Did you get out film school yesterday, you schmuck?
I could go on and on with the angry producer bit, but I think you get the point.
Director: Oh man, look at that shot! It looks a thousand times better.
Producer: Yeah that's great. The only problem is we have 15 crew members on overtime that we don't have budgeted. I don't give a sh*t about what the shot looks like. How in the f#ck are we supposed to pay for this? Do you expect me to go the backers and tell them that the shot looks a thousand times better so they need to cough up more money? Why didn't you get the shot right the first time? Isn't that your job? Did you get out film school yesterday, you schmuck?
I could go on and on with the angry producer bit, but I think you get the point.