Planning my production timeline was really important because it helped me stay organized and realistic about what I could actually achieve. It also helped our group a lot because we all do competitive sports and have busy schedules, and it is insanely hard to plan when to film and collectively edit.
I broke the process into different stages: planning, filming, and editing. For the planning stage, I gave myself time to finish my storyboard, script, and location decisions. As well as every class we each would have some sort of progress check in with our group. Then I scheduled filming days based on everyone's schedule and competitions, which was SO hard to do.
One challenge was making sure we didn’t leave everything to the last minute. It took so much time and energy to had to think ahead and plan for possible problems, like weather, lighting, or people not being available. We also had to schedule for a longer filing period than would be necessary because of how many retires the clips took to get the perfect one. Smartly, we also planned an extra day if we needed for reshoots just in case something didn’t turn out the way we wanted. This was really important because filming doesn’t always go perfectly the first time, and sometimes after returning back home is when I realized that a clip wasn't exactly up to my liking.
Creating a timeline made the whole project feel more manageable and less stressful. It also helped me stay on track and make sure I was meeting deadlines. We had aimed to film in 2 separate days, and completed the first day/house scene a week before spring break, which gave us ample time to edit the clips together and further plan for the nest time we would film. My group members, wanted to film the first Monday of spring break but I had a national competition the first 4 days and was out of town, so that did not work. Through planning ahead were able to pick a more convenient day which ended up being Saturday the week of spring break - leaving Sunday free incase of retakes.
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