Splitting up Production

Today, following the recommendation of our lecturer, we decided to split up the production role between Craig, Lynley, and me to get things arranged faster and to keep an eye on everything in the upcoming production. Which is really necessary, since one week has already been gone and almost nothing got done so far.

Unfortunately, not a single one of the important locations has been secured or called as of yet and, as a result, this also meant that our script could not be finalised since the execution of key scenes hinged on having the right locations at hand. This, in turn, meant that I could not draft a concrete storyboard that would fit the script or be of any use, since too many factors were still in flux. We furthermore have not yet heard back from our client who wanted to recommend transmale actors to us. So it was high time and a good call that we started splitting up the production role. For it also serves the benefit of exerting common control on the tasks that need to get out of the way first.

Since I am currently sick and desperately need to start preparing on my role as the cinematographer and all the documentation that goes with it, I opted to take care of casting calls, filming release forms, location release forms, the public liability insurance, and the minutes, in short: Anything that I could either take care of on the very filming days or from my own desk at home, in case the flu hit me harder, without causing any more delay to our production than we already incurred.

After reassigning the relevant tasks, I double-checked that we were not missing any important documents and immediately started online-location scouting afterwards to enlarge the list of locations we had (and our very production value with it).

So yeah, as of now, filmmaking is mainly about communication, coordination, and organisation. And about frustration tolerance. Which is a feature I still need to upskill in.

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Anonymous (n.d.) Train Tracks Split [online] Image taken from: https://bit.ly/2GrQ8w6 [Accessed on 13 February 2018]