{"id":45,"date":"2003-10-03T20:02:35","date_gmt":"2003-10-04T03:02:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jjmata.com\/wp-acr\/?p=45"},"modified":"2004-08-21T15:06:56","modified_gmt":"2004-08-21T22:06:56","slug":"lessons-learned","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jjmata.com\/?p=45","title":{"rendered":"Lessons learned"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Things Mario and I picked up during the shooting of <em>The Curse of the Red Book<\/em>.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nDuring shooting:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Light is king.  Make sure you expose shots correctly or takes will not match and destroy the illusion of continuity.<\/li>\n<li>Everybody has an opinion, but only the Director&#8217;s count.  Can&#8217;t have too many people trying to &#8220;suggest&#8221; alternatives all the time as the process becomes too fragmented.  Need clear, decisive leadership willing to listen to remarks but not be swayed all the time.<\/li>\n<li>Shot lists\/storyboards are essential planning\/communication tools.  Be prepared to do a lot more work salvaging what you shoot later on if you didn&#8217;t make sure everything you needed was already shot (by following the shot list.)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>During editing:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>More is better.  Having more material to choose from is always better, but beware of having <i>too much<\/i> since just looking through the different takes will make it impossible to complete the work in a reasonable amount of time.<\/li>\n<li>Sound is hard.  Make sure that you <i>absolutely<\/i> need live sound and do it well if so.  Otherwise be prepared to play lots of tricks during the sound editing part of the job.\n<li>The tools (iMovie\/iDVD in our case) are extremely powerful these days, give them the time they require and they will help you tremendously.  Don&#8217;t be afraid of them.\n<li>There are lots of ways you can fix what you have shot and make it into a cohesive whole.  It will just not be <i>the<\/i> cohesive whole you were trying to  film when you started.\n<\/li>\n<\/li>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Overall:<\/p>\n<ul> perfect be the enemy of the good.\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Things Mario and I picked up during the shooting of The Curse of the Red Book.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-film"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7ncoG-J","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jjmata.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jjmata.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jjmata.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jjmata.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jjmata.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=45"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jjmata.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jjmata.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=45"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jjmata.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=45"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jjmata.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=45"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}