Recently in Schedule Category
This is the last week of British Summertime. Not that you would know it here in Scotland as the weather continues to be persistently bleak...
When the Script for I Love Luci was initially conceived I set it in the summer or early autumn. As it transpires we are gearing up to shoot at the beginning of winter. We had hoped that we might be able to get things moving fast enough to get the stuff shot before the end of British Summertime when you do at least have a reasonable amount of light in the day.
I am not overly concerned about how this affects the story. I think we can use it to our advantage if we apply a little creativity. There are some serious practical implications.
I have talked a bit about schedule in the past and one constant is the tightness of a shooting schedule. They tend to be lean by nature.
This Sunday the clocks go back one hour. Gaining an hour sounds useful on first impression but the reality is that all of a sudden it start to get dark at about 4 in the afternoon which takes a considerable chunk out of your working day if daylights important to whatever you're up to.
This coupled with what looks like an expanding production schedule means that we are heading towards the abyss of Scottish winter and some new thinking on the shooting schedule.
When the Script for I Love Luci was initially conceived I set it in the summer or early autumn. As it transpires we are gearing up to shoot at the beginning of winter. We had hoped that we might be able to get things moving fast enough to get the stuff shot before the end of British Summertime when you do at least have a reasonable amount of light in the day. I am not overly concerned about how this affects the story. I think we can use it to our advantage if we apply a little creativity. There are some serious practical implications.
I have talked a bit about schedule in the past and one constant is the tightness of a shooting schedule. They tend to be lean by nature.
This Sunday the clocks go back one hour. Gaining an hour sounds useful on first impression but the reality is that all of a sudden it start to get dark at about 4 in the afternoon which takes a considerable chunk out of your working day if daylights important to whatever you're up to.
This coupled with what looks like an expanding production schedule means that we are heading towards the abyss of Scottish winter and some new thinking on the shooting schedule.
If there's one thing I have learned over the last few years working at
Sigma then it's that you have to remain flexible. Too often you can
make a decision and have it robbed from you for reasons you could never
predict - although the schedule is frequently the perpetrator.
The very exciting part of having our first chunk of funding in place means that we now have tentative shoot dates and casting and crewing to start pulling together.
At one point it looked like we had all the HoD's (heads of department) in place. However, the nature of the project is that even though we are a funded operation we still can't pay high fees and we will be in production for a short period of time. The upshot of this is if people get jobs that will take them up to Christmas or just pay a lot more money then economics take priority.
We are forever planning and re-planning and changing and alternating and reconfiguring and swapping things about. I expect things will chop and change some more before we shoot. I suppose if there are people out there in a similar situation to mine then you should be aware that things are rarely set in stone before the camera rolls.
Tomorrow we have our first casting day. It's for the part of Tommy. The male lead in the film. This is very exciting. We have a bunch of guys coming into read for the role all of whom look like interesting options for the part. I love the idea that tomorrow I will be able to see some life coming to the script for the first time. I hope the schedule doesn't get in the way of anything that feels right tomorrow.
The very exciting part of having our first chunk of funding in place means that we now have tentative shoot dates and casting and crewing to start pulling together.
At one point it looked like we had all the HoD's (heads of department) in place. However, the nature of the project is that even though we are a funded operation we still can't pay high fees and we will be in production for a short period of time. The upshot of this is if people get jobs that will take them up to Christmas or just pay a lot more money then economics take priority.
We are forever planning and re-planning and changing and alternating and reconfiguring and swapping things about. I expect things will chop and change some more before we shoot. I suppose if there are people out there in a similar situation to mine then you should be aware that things are rarely set in stone before the camera rolls.
Tomorrow we have our first casting day. It's for the part of Tommy. The male lead in the film. This is very exciting. We have a bunch of guys coming into read for the role all of whom look like interesting options for the part. I love the idea that tomorrow I will be able to see some life coming to the script for the first time. I hope the schedule doesn't get in the way of anything that feels right tomorrow.
