{"id":4687,"date":"2003-10-27T09:09:25","date_gmt":"2003-10-27T17:09:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ikillspies.com\/blog\/2003\/10\/27\/4687\/"},"modified":"2003-10-27T09:09:25","modified_gmt":"2003-10-27T17:09:25","slug":"production-notes-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.ikillspies.com\/?p=4687","title":{"rendered":"Production Notes #2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Continuing on my<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.zeromachine.com\/archives\/000604.html\">observations<\/a> from the shoot\/edit:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>we need a slate.  It speeds up editing a LOT.<\/li>\n<li>If we had both a slate <b>and<\/b><br \/>\na PA writing down the tape counter readings for<br \/>\nall the takes, and a check next to the ones the director said were &#8220;good,&#8221;<br \/>\nwe 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 &#8220;dailies,&#8221; and we would know if there are bad takes while we were still running around shooting.  So notice that process actually needs <b>three<\/b> 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&#8217;d have a fourt person doing the slate, but I&#8217;m thinking that could be a member of the cast.\n <\/li>\n<li>More than one unit (camera, lights, sound and associated crew).  I&#8217;m a little undecided on this one&#8230; it would have been very helpful to get people doing the individual interviews in parallel, but then I don&#8217;t have a control over the look of the shot.  Maybe if I explicitly storyboarded the shot in extreme shot detail?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 &#8220;good,&#8221; we could have someone loading the clips [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4687","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-looky"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ikillspies.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4687","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ikillspies.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ikillspies.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ikillspies.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ikillspies.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4687"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.ikillspies.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4687\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ikillspies.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4687"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ikillspies.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4687"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ikillspies.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4687"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}