Friday, 6 November 2015

PreProduction Unit- Researching Production (Planning for Reshoots)

As producer it is important that I understand the way in which other producers have gone about their productions, and whether or not what they have done has been successful or not. I have been doing this by watching interviews with Producers of short film on the red carpet (as evidenced by a previous blog post) and also reading ebooks that have been published which point out the dos and don'ts of producing.
One ebook I found particularly interesting was the book called Producing and Directing the Short Film and Video by Peter Rea and David Irving. In the book, various methods to a successful production are discussed, and one excellent suggestion is to plan for reshoots, whether or not we are confident we will get the shoot right the first time.
Page 77 of Producing and Directing the Short Film and Video.
The key point to this suggestion is to basically never be caught out. There have been many times on my own production shoots where I have assumed that the shoot will be so easy to pull of that the need for a reshoot will not necessary, and have therefore not planned a potential reshoot into the schedule.
By following the suggestion noted in this book, I can always plan for reshoots, whether or not they are required. Afterall, if a shoot goes fine and a reshoot isn't required, nobody loses out, and the reshoot day can be used for something else. But if the shoot goes horribly, and I haven't made preparations for a possible reshoot, there is a lot that can go wrong with the production that could have been avoided had I only envisioned the shoot going wrong.

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