14 The Director and PA on location
On location, with a portable single camera (PSC) shoot, the Director is just as busy and the PA still has much to do. Both of them are just as pivotal to the programme’s success as their equivalents in studio.
In the stage before shooting much of the preparatory work required on studio productions still has to be done. The Director will still be involved with the development of the shooting script, planning camera angles, casting then rehearsing performers, schedules planning.
Each of these will be different in emphasis from the similar studio based process. The shooting script is no longer limited to what can be shot in a reasonably sized, reasonably priced set. Any setting is now possible, ...
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