Tomorrow we wrap our shoot. It's finally here. We stayed up until 4:00am last night (or this morning) making this thing. We shot for roughly 20 hours.
What this whole process has made me realize is that understanding what you are writing is so key to the production side of things. You need to know in pretty good detail of what you want it to look like when you write it, and especially if you're writing it with someone else.
There have been a few occasions throughout this shoot where one of us or the other assumed the other knew exactly what they wanted for a particular shot, only to learn that it was just something that was written just to fill in the blanks. We then had to take extra time figuring out what the best approach would be.
Now, normally, we wouldn't write, shoot, and edit a 20-minute film in 3 weeks, but Halloween placed us under some serious time constraints. What I'm trying to say here is that we would have taken three weeks or more to go through the entire script, reading each scene and figuring out the exact look we wanted for every single shot, storyboarding as we went. We gave up that luxury, however, and threw ourselves in head-first to this huge undertaking.
It's been a huge learning experience-most recently being that nobody is happy to be shooting at 3:00am- but it's been worth it. It may not have been the wisest idea to jump from our three page comfort zone to a 17-page oblivion, but it doesn't matter now. We've nearly finished, and I've learned a whole lot.
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