Eleven: Good and Bad Takes

The planning and organising on set has been crucial towards making our film. With so many actors and crew on set we had to make sure we didn't get carried away with the shots and start to note down what shots were working. As co director I was responsible for telling Jacob, the director, how each shot looked from certain angles, how dialogue sounded and if the acting was good. I carried a notebook on every shoot ticking or crossing each shot. In between takes me and Jacob would discuss the good and bad aspects of each take. Having this information throughout the shoot made our jobs a lot easier as we were not relying on instinct to judge weather or not a shot was successful. However obvious this was, it was vitally important when going into the editing suite. We knew exactly what shots to delete and make a shortlist of our best shots.