Problems on set. Somebody please tell me if it's normal
- Thread starter GeneralO'neill
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it is constant learning experience. It seems you chose wrong people for this one though. It always has to be realiable people. What also helps is having a producer or assistant director person who will split your problems and also give hard time to people who are late or don't show, so it doesn't look that it is only you unresenobaly bossing everyone around. I suggest taking everything more simple as well.
Loki
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aww now I feel the need to tell a little tale of my experience of my last short film..
I was boring equipment from my school (oh which I was already a graduate) for a weekend shoot. I was supposed to take the equipment out on the thursday afternoon to have it for our 7:30am call the next day.
I got 1 flag, and a monitor on the thursday. I had reserved the P+S Technik 35mm Adaptor. The adaptor I was renting usually came with the XL2 as a package, but I was just getting the adaptor. So I had to get the connection piece for my DVX, which was coming from the only other person in town that rents the unit.
After I get that adaptor, I find out that it won't work with the lens adaptor because it is for the newer model and the one I am getting is the older model(eek). Onwards to rent equipment we needed that the school wouldn't give me. (HMI, Dolly mount etc..)
Firday comes around, arrive on set late cause of traffic and picking other people up. Still no equipment, minus the few lights we brought over the other day. Previously, my lead actress calls me and says she can't be on set past 4pm cause her boss said she had to work. This if for the first 2 days.
Get to my school and wait in a huge lineup to get the equipment. Huge Cricket Dolly, boom arm, many lights, some grip stands etc.. heavy stuff. Don't get back on set until 12:30 with the equipment. Keeping in mind that we had 44 shots to get through on the first day, and absolutely nothing had been shot yet.
First shot off at 1:30 pm and my actress has to leave in 2.5 hours.. shot one scene with her then she had to leave.
Ironically most of my shots did not work out for that scene, things were so rushed I didn't end up using half the shots we got.
My fashion gal needed to head home for the evening, so I called a dinner break for an hour and I drove her while my crew ate. Big mistake that was, I wasted even more time as there was a huge traffic jam on the way back.
(Insert Heart attack).
In Total, 17 of 44 shots on the first day when we wrapped. It may not sound "that" bad.. but keep in mind I spent $2500 of my own money on this project, and time when you are not shooting is just like throwing your money away.
This is with all kinds of planning and pre-production work. I was far better prepared for this film than my last one.
Worked out eventually.. have a beautiful film... full of blood sweat and tears.
peas.
I was boring equipment from my school (oh which I was already a graduate) for a weekend shoot. I was supposed to take the equipment out on the thursday afternoon to have it for our 7:30am call the next day.
I got 1 flag, and a monitor on the thursday. I had reserved the P+S Technik 35mm Adaptor. The adaptor I was renting usually came with the XL2 as a package, but I was just getting the adaptor. So I had to get the connection piece for my DVX, which was coming from the only other person in town that rents the unit.
After I get that adaptor, I find out that it won't work with the lens adaptor because it is for the newer model and the one I am getting is the older model(eek). Onwards to rent equipment we needed that the school wouldn't give me. (HMI, Dolly mount etc..)
Firday comes around, arrive on set late cause of traffic and picking other people up. Still no equipment, minus the few lights we brought over the other day. Previously, my lead actress calls me and says she can't be on set past 4pm cause her boss said she had to work. This if for the first 2 days.
Get to my school and wait in a huge lineup to get the equipment. Huge Cricket Dolly, boom arm, many lights, some grip stands etc.. heavy stuff. Don't get back on set until 12:30 with the equipment. Keeping in mind that we had 44 shots to get through on the first day, and absolutely nothing had been shot yet.
First shot off at 1:30 pm and my actress has to leave in 2.5 hours.. shot one scene with her then she had to leave.
Ironically most of my shots did not work out for that scene, things were so rushed I didn't end up using half the shots we got.
My fashion gal needed to head home for the evening, so I called a dinner break for an hour and I drove her while my crew ate. Big mistake that was, I wasted even more time as there was a huge traffic jam on the way back.
(Insert Heart attack).
In Total, 17 of 44 shots on the first day when we wrapped. It may not sound "that" bad.. but keep in mind I spent $2500 of my own money on this project, and time when you are not shooting is just like throwing your money away.
This is with all kinds of planning and pre-production work. I was far better prepared for this film than my last one.
Worked out eventually.. have a beautiful film... full of blood sweat and tears.
peas.