Filming Schedule

 Here is the filming schedule my team and I made for the documentary project.

Although Rachelle added the base dates for the schedule, I had fixed most of it since the dates were wrong and I was able to accurately change the dates since I was there for almost all of the sessions in the schedule (I came to the most schedules compared to the others).

Reflection

Before project: 

How will a schedule help you? 

A schedule will help my team and I in organizing and allocating our time efficiently so we will have enough time to finish recording and developing all of our scenes in the documentary opening. Other than that, it will remind us of what to bring (equipments and props column) , what to be careful of and what we need to remember to do since the notes section will guide us. The media filming schedule can also help us keep track of what scenes we have recorded and what scenes we haven't recorded yet as there are dates to keep us on track with the time. 

Is it realistic? 

Although it may seem like a solid schedule, it isn't realistic to believe that we can follow exactly the schedule that is recorded as there are variables that are unpredictable like some people not being able to go on certain dates suddenly. Even so, I think that it is still a bit realistic since we decided to spread the workload pretty evenly throughout the different dates so we don't expect to finish recording a huge chunk of the recording in just a day.

What problems might you face? 

I think one of the main problems would again be the unforeseen variables that may mess up the flow of the schedule since if one of the sessions in the schedule isn't completed, we'll have to move it to another day and push back the recordings of the others scenes by a day too. So to avoid this, we will try our best to attend all the schedules we have set in the schedule to prevent any misunderstandings.

After project

Problems:

Like I had predicted previously, one of the main problems was the fact that some team members were unable to go on certain days abruptly. This would result in a lack of team members on some days which made it hard to get behind the scenes shots. As an example, there were 2 days where I went to Jocelyn's house alone to record my parts since others were unavailable. Since I was acting and Jocelyn was actively recording as a cameraman, there was nobody to take behind the scenes pictures, so we lacked in that aspect. There were also many times where we had to push back and constantly edit the dates since we were all unavailable on some days so the schedule was never really fixed. Another problem was that we hadn't solidified our screenplay even during the creation of the schedule. This made it so we were unsure of the number and types of scenes we actually had to record. This resulted in us having to add and edit the schedule constantly too.

Solutions:

Although it is shameful to admit, we actually didn't have a particular solution to all of these problems. Instead, we just kept adjusting and modifying the schedule as there was nothing else we could really do since the matter of people being able or unable to come was out of our hands. What we were able to do though was speed up the process of finishing the script and storyboard so we could make sure that in addition to that, we wouldn't need to change the schedule as much as before. I think that though it was quite rocky, we still did quite a good job in the end.

What to do next time:

I think that next time the only proper suggestion is to make sure that the actors that we have can actually make it to the schedules allotted. We can do this by making sure our actor would be free during most weekends, we made the mistake of not doing that which resulted in us having to urgently change our actor though it ultimately worked out. I do think that I will use this type of schedule for future projects though because it is really helpful especially for writing the behind the scenes details as the dates for all the sessions are recorded.