Staying Organized

After Darren, the Unit Production Manager, organized my shoot. It was really easy to take that schedule and break down of each day and then make a script in the order of the shoot. So I made a binder with the organized script broken into each day of the shoot.

Once I had that, it was like a guide to my film and how it would be shot. But a film with heavy digital fx needs a little more attention. So once I started shooting, and had scenes that had the hologram in them edited together. I had to make that work.

So I came up with a plan for the green screen shoot days. First, I had to have footage from a location for the scene. Then, with a screenshot of that scene and having my actors in place, I had a reference for the way we would set up each hologram effect when on the green screen stage.

This made the shoot go very smooth. Knowing what shots I needed in each scene with a visual map. Allowed us to move from scene to scene and utilize the setup of the camera and green screen more effectively.

If it was a wide shot, we would shoot scene 3, 8 and 12. If it was a close-up. We would shoot 2, 12 and 16. It was easy to get those done in a short amount of time with this method, while getting all the coverage for each scene.