Short Film Project

What did you learn?

No matter how careful you are with actor scheduling and production schedule, you can't solve for incompetency. No matter how early you release the schedule, and no matter how many times you tell your actors to check their schedule, you can NOT solve for incompetency.

Being well prepared with carefully planned out production schedule helps you get all of your actors and crew on the same page, and also allows for easier rescheduling if above incompetency happens to occur.

Filming car shots is difficult, and filming at night is worse. Lighting can not be constant, and mic quality is marginal at best.

Never give up, even if it seems pointless to try to pull everything together again, never give up.

What would you do differently next time?

Not use Logan Read as an actor.

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