PART 5: The Shoot and After

Chapter 21

Routines for Success in Production

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FIGURE 21.1 Production, at last! (Photo: Brendan Mason.)

Day one! We’re in production, at last! After who knows how many weeks, months, and/or years of dreaming, dealing, prepping, and falling out of and back in love again with your film, you’re here, producing and/or directing it. Congratulations. You are already one of the few and the proud. Many people talk about making a movie, and a few people actually get started down the path, but the number who get to the first day of production is few indeed.

So at this point, the focus of “prep” changes, since technically you’re ...

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