Planning your schedule: Avoiding bottlenecks, keeping crew on schedule

- Here's a sample schedule. … You can see there's some key blocks of time … as well as some pad for getting from one location … to the other. … And that's what makes a good schedule. … There's just no point in putting dozens of things … on the schedule that you won't actually have time to shoot. … I'll also mention that putting a crew … on a 13 hour day for a jam packed shoot … may cost you just as much, if not more, … with overtime as two shorter days. … And you'll probably get better footage … on the two day shoot 'cause people won't be so tired. … So, I've shown you two different kinds of schedules, … the first one is a more involved, EFP shoot, … where we had more people, more things to shoot, … we were shooting a longer piece, … multiple days, multiple locations. … And now here's an example of a shorter ENG style shoot. … Just one location, and we're kind of covering a lot … of information, a lot of material, … in some kind of sneaky ways where we kind of … pop outside the primary location, …