Creating A Shooting Schedule

After completing the storyboards we moved onto creating a shooting schedule. This is a very necessary document as it helps you and the rest of the group to stay organised throughout the day of shooting and gives you a schedule to stick to. This was a tricky process though as we had to try to think about and guess the amount of time it would take us to do each shot, including all the setting up and rigging of lights. We printed off another copy of the written shot by shot document of the narrative and went through dividing it up into the different locations. We only have 4 locations to shoot in, the living room, the child’s bedroom, the stairway and outside the house. We had to make sure that it was dark for the shots that take place outside which coursed a bit of problem as we don’t want to be there too late. When then went through giving each shot an estimated time for shooting and ordered each shot into a suitable shooting sequence. We estimated that as we are hoping to use a location that’s near by, we would arrive on set at about 9.30. We decided that we would give ourselves about 30-40 minutes of setting up time between each different shoot. I then went on the computer and wrote it up into a spreadsheet that explained it clearly. So at the moment we are shooting between 10.00 and 6.00.
We also decided to create call sheets for the 3 cast members also outlining the storyline as we needed to make sure that they knew what was going on and when they were needed.