R+P Post 13: Our Shoot-Board

Our Shoot-Board

After the column showing the shot number, there was a column for the timings to film each shot. We had to estimate how long it would take for each shot to be done, but some shots did take longer than expected to be finished, especially the shots we shot at the tube station locations. On reflection, in future projects I will compensate more for that realistic actuality of going over the time limit for a few shots by making the time longer for each shot to be filmed.

We took shots from our storyboard to show the framing of each one and had information on the actors and props being used for each shot, so that we could plan our time better and arrange the precise acting times to meet the different actors for the shots they would be in. The confirmation of the the job of the Director and Camera-man for each shot made sure to not waist any time on coming up to that decision on set.

The two last columns were for writing down how many takes we had done and which one we preferred out of all of them, which saved us a lot of time of having to find the right takes and watching through in the editing process, as we knew which ones we desired out of the ones, because we had previously identified it.

The shoot board definitely boosted our efficiency through it helping the organisation process when filming, but by the time we had reached the main shoot we were already familiar with each shot we were going to shoot, so we made a shot list instead. This meant that we could just tick off when we had done each shot and it was a lot quicker to use on set.