A short reflection on my planning

While I have touched on my planning process a few times on this blog, I felt that I should discuss the issues I had planning my shoot in retrospect. I routinely wondered if I was fully committing to a truly experimental film as I had often thought that the content I was planning on covering was too narrative in nature. This paranoia resulted in me refusing to draft a shotlist or storyboard of any kind as I believed those devices would further hamper my experimentation and creativity. Of course, I still had a plan of what I would like to see in the film, but it was a rough plan and most of the shoot saw me winging it, going from one shot that I thought was interesting to another without any real rhyme or reason. I don’t necessarily think that was a bad move per se, but I do believe it made the shoot slightly more stressful than it needed to be


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