BTS Photo--my filming organization
Added 2018-11-06 17:34:02 +0000 UTCConsider this slightly spoilery perhaps, but then again if you watched the latest Patron only video you know this is coming...
I'm about ready to start shooting B-roll for the LightScribe video, and I thought I'd share my weird process for organizing that endeavor.
It may surprise you that when I write the scripts, I don't have anything but a sort of ethereal plan in my head for what visuals will accompany them. Once I've written the video and shot the talking head, I do a rough edit to get the talking head cut down to its end length (removing outtakes, timing corrections, etc) and only then do I actually plan this part out.
I'll play the video in the background while I have the Google Doc open with the script, and as I hear myself say things that need a visual accompaniment, I jot them down. Then I go through a categorizing and reorganization process for the how to shoot each thing, and with a little color coding, I have a "checklist" that I can go through. Then --and this is important-- I print it out (in 2018?!) so that I can literally use it as a checklist. And that's what this is a photo of.
Then it's a whole mess of time getting all of this imported and inserted into the timeline. This is the process that takes the longest by far, and I'm about to embark on that journey.
Comments
Production and editing really is as complicated as that. Normally, these tasks would be assigned to separate individuals. You're doing a lot of hard work.
2020-03-30 12:17:27 +0000 UTCWhen I did scripts in college for news/documentary stuff, I used a two column format. In the left column, it had the voice over script, and the right column had the video/shot description.
William Gray
2018-11-10 17:56:05 +0000 UTC
