Continuing on my
observations from the shoot/edit:
- we need a slate. It speeds up editing a LOT.
- If we had both a slate and
a PA writing down the tape counter readings for
all the takes, and a check next to the ones the director said were “good,”
we could have someone loading the clips onto the editing machine while the production is still going. About a third of the time I spent editing this one was getting the clips from the tape onto the machine. This process would give us the DV equivalent of “dailies,” and we would know if there are bad takes while we were still running around shooting. So notice that process actually needs three additional crew- one to note the counter times at the shoot, one to get the samples into the machine, and another to run the tapes back and forth. Ideally you’d have a fourt person doing the slate, but I’m thinking that could be a member of the cast. - More than one unit (camera, lights, sound and associated crew). I’m a little undecided on this one… it would have been very helpful to get people doing the individual interviews in parallel, but then I don’t have a control over the look of the shot. Maybe if I explicitly storyboarded the shot in extreme shot detail?