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A Director’s Guide to Shooting His Vision: The Daily Journal of ‘Kalashnikov’ (Part I)
by robmakesmovies on Jan.14, 2010, under Uncategorized
Day 1:
Today was not a great day. It was by no means a horrible day, but there are a number of things that could have gone better. I blame myself, mostly. Today we had a plethora of actors for our shoot, but we had to get them in costume/makeup, shoot their scenes, and out of wardrobe/makeup by 12:30pm. Our day started at 7am. Oy. We scrambled together and based on the vision in my head, I replaed it over and over to my AD, DP, Art Team, and talent. It was rather chaotic, and not organized the way that it should have been. Well… lesson learned. Communicate better in Pre-Pro.
The good news is that 85% or more were beautiful shots that I wouldn’t change a thing. That other 15% is things that I couldn’t make perfect because we were crunched on time. The other good news is that we are attracting a hell of a lot of attention from Full Sail faculty and staff. Numerous teachers we’ve had before, including one that was promoted to Film Program Director, came out to check out what we were doing and snap pictures. Full Sail’s marketing department came out and shot some B-roll for a video they are putting together. Given that they were only there relatively briefly, they didn’t witness the chaos we were trying to overcome.
The bad news is that we are currently quite behind. We did 8 shots on a day where there were ~16 planned. We accomplished in 12 hours what a professional, experienced crew would do in about two. Ouch… We have a plan on how to properly work around this, though. It required me to stay up a little longer tonight in order for us to implement at 6am tomorrow in a meeting with my keys(nickname for department heads on a film project). Day 1 started slow, but by the end of day 2, I’m confident we can fix the issues we had today. On with tomorrow!
(updating with photos at a later date)
