Fuck-Up #43
“It’s Quick On-Screen; It Shouldn’t Take Long to Shoot”
Why screen time has little correlation to shooting time
“Make the hard ones look easy and the easy ones look hard.”2
—Walter Hagen
The Fuck-Up…
Those new to film sets often show up expecting a great deal of glamour and excitement, and after a while of not much happening, they often leave bored. Although movies are designed to make what appears on the screen interesting, exciting, dramatic, romantic, and so on, that does not mean any of these feelings are reflective of what occurred off-screen while making the film.
Likewise, although a movie may be made to feel well paced on-screen, shooting it rarely ever is. Where many new filmmakers go wrong is in believing that screen ...
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