All language subtitles for Our production schedule

throughout all of these short film courses

I refer to the filming of the assurance

so in this movie

I'm gonna give you an overview of the whole productions

that you have a frame of reference

so this is less of a tutorial

and more of a reference

to help you get more

out of all this short film training

the main part of our production consisted of three days

at the end of March 2,013

the first day was a lighter day

meaning that we didn't have much to film

and there were less complicated shots and camera moves

so we didn't need as much personnel on hand

the only crew was myself as DP and director

Daniel Mamura filling in as gaffer

and basically the rest of the Cameron Genie department

and Josh Savari on audio

and that's it

three people

Elijah Teigs and Steven Heller

were also there

but their primary jobs were to film

the behind the scenes footage

for this training

on this first day

we only shot scene 7

what I refer to as the hut scene with Eva Natty

as we'll learn about later in this trading series

this is a rough day

because of some crazy weather

that I wasn't prepared enough for

the second day was the biggest day of production

all cast all crew

about 20 to 30 extras

we started in the morning and shot into the night

as we Learned later in this training series

we ended up

unable to get all that we wanted to shoot that night

but we did get some pretty great stuff

all of scene 9

the council scene

scene 13 the goodbye scene

where taiani and cordaya part ways

and we also shot a lot of great night stuff

for the first part of scene ten

the third day was more of a medium average issue day

we started mid to late morning

and finished before the sun went down

most of the cast was there

most of the crew

we had about eight to 10 extras

on this third shoot day

we only got one scene scene 8

what I refer to as the common area scene

but this was probably the longest

and most complex scene in the film

there are a lot of moving pieces

and we got some pretty great footage

now these three days

were what I called the main production days

but I still had a lot more work ahead of me

we had to reschedule the night shoot

for which we had a lot of really amazing people

volunteer to return to help out

after getting much of the footage edited

I realized the story was missing some key elements

so Heather and I wrote a new scene

we made one attempt to film that scene

but the location we were going to use

had too much noise from a nearby highway

also the sun came out

and it just didn't look like the insurance

so we had to ditch that shoot

and reshoot that pickup scene at our main location

I also shot a lot of stuff with Steven Heller

one of the behind the scenes producers

I just mentioned

he came with me and my family

to shoot the finale at a local park

and then we took a road trip to Eastern Washington

where we literally pulled off the side of the road

and stole loads of shots

all the snow stuff

and most of the desert footage as well

Steven Heller and I also work together

to film some of the special effects shots

we used in the movie

there were also

seemingly countless shots

that we shot on little family road trips

my daughter nanny

who plays cordaia

would bring her costume

and we just go out driving

we stole shots in parks

or whatever locations we found that would work

finally we also had a host of voiceover shoots

because we have a lot of editing changes

and rewrites in post

having an amazingly flexible

and generous lead actress

Aniva Jane as well as my sweet little Natty

really saved this entire production

they were so patient with all the rewrites

and reshoots

and everything else

that I threw at them

so now that you're familiar with what

our production look like

let's dig a little bit more

into some universal production basics