Re: Question about shooting news documentary style in this case.
 

Oh okay, why is the shooting schedule likely to be longer though? The guidelines don't say anything about having to spread out your events longer.

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It's not about directly spreading the schedule out...it's all the extra hoops with masks, handwashing, maintaining distance, etc etc etc. All of this will slow down the process as you add extra seconds and minutes to each little thing you do all day, over a 10/12 etc hour period. Think about how much crap people touch every day and how close they normally are on set...now realize all of that has to change.

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Oh okay I see. Well if I have to, I could postpone if I have to then. I'm trying to make my shoots faster than before, to save money and time.

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Given your films to date, I would concentrate on improving the quality of your films, rather than shooting faster.

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Oh okay, but one of the things I have to improve in the shoots is getting the schedule faster. Or I could stick to the same type of schedule I have been doing, but I don't want to be slowed down too much though by covid, and may need to wait then, if that's the case.

Of course I will try to improve the quality as well.

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It's hard to take you seriously, you already do fast shoots and don't seem to be that demanding in creating reasonably good performances from your current actors. Good DPs and actors will want the time to do their jobs to a suitably high standard.

Is this just another case of forum ping pong messaging?

Have you read the message from the moderator on DVX User and their advice?

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Yeah he said to start at the script, so I can do that, if that's the advice you meant.

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The one I saw didn't mention scripts.