Steve: Hey everyone, welcome to four minute film school. My name is Steve Nelson. Now, there is nothing worst than setting up your first professional film shoot and you know you get casting call, you got all these great actors, and you just end up looking like a @!$& because you do not plan everything out well. Well, in today’s episode we are going to tell you how to not be a @!$& and plan out your next production so everything runs perfectly smooth. Start the clock!
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A little bit of planning can go a long way from keeping your equipment constantly in check to setting up shooting schedules to keep yourself aligned? You can turn even the most incompetent of people and do it gathering. We will cover those two things and tons more to help facilitate the filming of your next production right after this break.
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Jared: Recently, we went out to shoot something on location, when we got there one of our mics has given up the goals and did not work. That is why it is always important to test all your equipment the night before to make sure that everything is in operating order.
Steve: Now it is a bit obvious but it is always important to bring spare expendables as tapes, batteries, light bulbs, chords. Everything can go out in a second. A lot of you are probably in the same goal as me when I go out and make a movie. I am not paying nobody. But, you should at least give them a meal an affordable way to do this is to go out and get cold cuts, salad, some chips, soda, and just you have done the food maybe supply them for their transportation and they will thank you for that. If they do not, then I will take the food back.
Jared: Prepping your camera the night before also includes cleaning you lens. Do not ever use lens cleaners on your lenses it can creep back behind the lens, get in the optics and cause clouding or condensation. Instead I am going to show you the professional way to do it. Grab your candor hold it like this, give it a blast then you take a kinwipe fold it up a couple of times and just use that.
Steve: Now, it is always a good idea to go online and check the weather in advance to plan out your shooting days. now, if you want to shoot out in the rain or you absolutely have to jut go back to the episode of weekend where Allan built that little case that goes over your camera for the rain. Checking out your location ahead of time is always beneficial whether it is the day before, week before, month before, decade before, millennium before, not only because you can bring around the digital camera and take some pictures of what your shots will be to enhance your board, you can also find things like electrical outlets to plug in to and hospitals to go to just incase you have done and get electrocuted while plugging in to the electrical outlet, got to be careful.
A detailed list of schedules is a great thing to have. The three most important into my opinion are the shot list, prop list and the character list. Usually I block it out by location so when I am at that certain location I know everything I need by going to each individual list.
Jared: Another thing that you should definitely do the night before is make sure all your batteries are charged. Once they are charged put a rubber band around them and you will know. that way, when you are going to use it and take it off your camera and just laying around, there is no rubber band you do not know if it is fully charged or not so go ahead and put it on the charger.
Steve: Have you well thought out production, foreign advance, will show that you are professional and serious about what you are doing. That is going to wrap up today’s episode of four minute film school. Join us next week on our show we are going to have Obama Girl. But I think that is better in my opinion. Do not forget to leave us some comments below. Give us some comments.
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