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I know you mention that you limited by time and budget but I was wondering how many takes do you usual do? does it take a long time to set up lighting?
There reason I ask is because I’m helping out on a literally no budget movie (everyone is just friends and family helping out) and there many takes over same scene and from different angles, so I was curious how it was like on your set?
the simplest way to solve that is to story board the scene. have all your shots worked out in advance. we used a 35mm adapter when we shot the film which is just like shooting on film rather then digital so it takes up to forty five minutes to an hour to light each scene. depending on the size of your crew it can be considerably less. if your shooting with no budget you should deffinitely plan every scene and shot before you shoot. as for takes i only look for two or three good shots. its useless to shoot the same performance over and over again, so i would get at least two good shots, get a few variations and then move on. we averaged about 10 pages a day. a big budget hollywood feature averages about 1-2 pages a day. i can’t stress the planning part enough it will surely make or break your film.