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Having a plan B, C, and D

Having a plan B, C, and D

From the course: 1 Person Crew Video Productions: 1 Up and Running

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Having a plan B, C, and D

- The more you sweat during peacetime, the less you bleed during wartime. That's pretty good, which means the more planning in pre-production you do, the smoother the production, the smoother the post-production. And that includes having a backup plan, ideally, two or more backup plans. Let's say you were planning to shoot outside. What if it's raining or what if it's cloudy or you're shooting a CEO in this magnificent meeting room? Well, what if the CEO is unavailable or now that magnificent meeting room is the smallest backroom available? What do you do if there is construction work happening next door? What if there are noises that you cannot control? On a traditional video production, while you are shooting you have a producer making phone calls, arranging other things. As a one-person crew, you have to do it all. And you cannot do it while you are shooting. You need to do it before. So here's a very concrete…

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