R+P Post 13: Our Shoot-Board

We created a shootboard which enabled us to put our shots in a logical order, meaning not all the actors would have to be there waiting around for their time on camera. We put the continuity sequence of myself (Lola) first so that we could get this done using just the three people in my group (one actor, one director and one camera person) and the extras we required could come later to the shoot.

It allowed for us to be organised in our time management so that we were aware of whether we were running over and consequently would end up being late, which we wanted to avoid doing. The images of our storyboard helped encourage us to stick as closely as we could to our original idea, changing only a few things along the way.

For our main shoot, we decided that using a shoot-board wasn't going to be particularly helpful as we had decided to change parts of our montage and continuity sequence (took out some of the speech and shots). Instead, we created a list of necessary shots that were essential to making our opening flow and make sense, and we brought this with us to the shoot so that we could tick off the shots once we'd taken them. Our main aim was just to take as many shots as possible so that we could edit the montage sequence with a fast pace.