Pre-Production Loose Ends

Fixing storyboards turned out to be complicated although it was only a matter of changing a few. John and I had discussed that the emphasis should be more on the fear of the situation for both parties involved. This did strengthen the bond between the audience and the plight of the characters.
Also, another examination of the first attempt at the video was a sure sign that I simply worked too fast. I had shot all our footage in 2 1/2 hours. Sure my planning was careful but my production was not. My still shots were not still, my handhelds were too shaky, the make-up and costumes were not believable, and overall there was simply an absence of care involved in the footage. Sure it was in the concept and the editing but not the footage.
This discovery became the most important distinction between the process I had used previously and what would be expected of me to make quality work now and into the future. Experimentation had been the time for time management to mean fastfastfast. However, this new attempt at quality involved something else. Now, the project had become only a handful of shots. The shoot is planned to be of the couple walking through the woods near the end of the video. Much like in "Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance" where a new writer is told to write about one side of one coin before talking about the economy; I will simplify. I have been working too much on a large scale with small time and now is the time to reverse those factors.

My shoot is scheduled for either Wednesday morning or Thursday afternoon depending on the weather (not that either day looks promising). I plan to shoot in HD for the first time as well. If I am lucky I will shoot the sequence involving all 4 end chararcters. Due to actor flakeyness this could easily drop to 3 or two (as it has countless times in the past).