Plus, it adds adventure to your life!
Find those people who — when presented with a problem — ask “How can we make this work so we can keep moving forward?” Those are great people to have on set. Cultivate those connections.
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Low-Budget Filmmaking Tip #144
And check for humming technicians, too.
If you’re getting a hum in your sound, replace your cables with shielded cables, or new cables, or at least don’t run them next to or across power cables. Make sure they’re properly grounded.
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Low-Budget Filmmaking Tip #143
Certain tasks should never be randomly assigned.
If you have a pyrotechnical device, never leave the arming key in the firing system if you have to walk away from it… NO EXCEPTIONS. And yes, you have an arming key, the removal of which will make the effect impossible to trigger. Of course you do.
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Low-Budget Filmmaking Tip #142
Really, Beware of Thunder!
Before you plan a shoot, record the ambient sound from the location and go somewhere else and really listen to it. Make sure you aren’t missing something that’s going to bedevil you later, such as an elevator, nearby crowd noises, crashing sounds from across the street, whatever. It’s usually easier to find a new location than to clean up crap audio.
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Low-Budget Filmmaking Tip #141
Nobody likes a Chatty-Cathy
Storytelling and dialogue are not the same thing. If no one gets the story, it’s not because there isn’t enough dialogue — it’s because the story doesn’t make sense. In fact, if you think you might need more dialogue, you probably need less.
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Low-Budget Filmmaking Tip #139
Nobody Wins Anyway
Don’t fight. Seriously. Yes, there will be disagreements. Yes, there will be frustrations. Yes, there will be setbacks. That is normal. But please, don’t fight about it. There’s no need to yell or shout or scream or whinge on.
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Low-Budget Filmmaking Tip #138
Who needs a working brain?!
You know those little adapters that let you plug a three-prong plug into a two-hole socket? Don’t use those.
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Low-Budget Filmmaking Tip #137
Stop mumbling!
There are a lot of things you can fix in editing, but crappy line delivery isn’t one of them.
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Low-Budget Filmmaking Tip #136
But never allow a brogue delivery!
If you’re actors want to try a variation of a line, get the scripted line first, and then let them try their variations (assuming you have the time, of course).
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