Film Production- Film Scheduling

We were finally able to shoot on Friday, December 14th. Unfortunately, we were running on a tight schedule since the majority of the actors had to participate in other activities, so we only had around three hours at the most to shoot. In reality, the shooting took around an hour and a half, and ended up with 42 takes. The shooting took a lot more quickly than I expected, but it could be understandable seeing that we were in one location. In the long run, we began to improvise on the style and the types of takes that we were going to use, but I believe that compared to the original plan, our revision was a little bit more suitable. Although we did take as many takes as I would have liked, the majority of them fit well into our final product. However, if we had more time, I would have filmed more takes and been more meticulous in the shooting. Throughout the filming, it was a little bit difficult as some of the actors were laughing, goofing off, or off task. The small window of time that we had to film may have also contributed to some stress and impatience regarding the actors. The fact that some of the actors had difficulties staying focused was somewhat frustrating, but we were able to accomplish our task. In addition, some of the actors did not memorize their scripts so we had to use them as props for conference documents. However, some of the actors did improvise on their lines which made the scene more coherent.