Contrasting with this me and my team showed both sides of this. We all worked well together when coming up with a main plot and introducing character ideas, which we worked with and changed until we all settled for the film that has now just finished being shot. We worked out the dialogue and agreed upon the final draft that our scriptwriter produced, listening to and making the chosen changes from everyone in our team.
On the contrary though, the last date we had together as a team in which we could all speak in person before the shoot, half of our team was missing due to illnesses and other changes. This meeting was held so that we could all agree about the shot list and any last minute changes.
Despite this however, we managed to pull together a completed shot list in time and we even managed to do a run through of the script which turned out to be under the time limit that we were cautious of before. After finishing early that day we conversed with the rest of our team on our group chat incase of any other feedback.
Another instance was when we failed to get actors due to a misunderstanding from one of our team members who thought that we could not get onto the South Yorkshire Network site though we later found out that we had indeed got a confirmation from them. On the upside though, we used our own team members for actors, though it proved to be somewhat challenging since one of them was the director himself. But in the end we all took on our own roles, and more and finished filming slightly early too.
For future reference I noted that we can always spend more time outside of these meetings to meet adequate planning but we have the experience needed to say that so far we have met any of the deadlines with the sufficient effort needed.
Being the producer I was tasked with completing a risk assessment, shot list and call list.
The risk assessment itself I found was more simplified compared to examples I have seen. One, because our film is quite short, and two, because we have only chosen two settings, one being indoors and one being outdoors.
Nonetheless, it is still a crucial sheet.
The day of the shoot went quite well, we even managed to finish early and so we decided to get a few spare shots of the streets and outdoor scenes just incase we needed more. However we did encounter a problem with the fact that there was a football match occurring on the same day and so we did our best to avoid any public risk of safety with our equipment, even going to some nearby police officers to ask for permission, and we tried to avoid this upsetting the shots too.
After we wrapped up, our supervisor who was on set with us all day gave us all feedback in terms of how we handled our roles.
having the director, producer and scriptwriter on set to take on the roles of actors too, went moderately okay, however it did prove challenging when we needed the directors feedback during certain scenes in which he was performing in.
I was told that I was very involved and engaged in my role, and I took part in helping to direct the scene, and camerwork as well, offering my ideas and getting the whole team together to decide important areas of the upcoming scenes and how we could set them up.
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