Overview
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Successfully guide video projects with outside production teams. Get tips for choosing the right crew, picking a shooting location, planning your production schedule, and more.
Syllabus
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Introduction
- Producing a video crew
- Important trends and strategies to know
- Your shoot planning checklist
- ENG vs. EFP Crews: Which team is right for your project?
- What are the roles on a video crew?
- What is the gear on a video shoot?
- Budgeting overview, tools, and tips
- Avoiding budget problems: Budget busters, savers, and strategies
- Information to provide an ENG crew prior to a live or press event
- Sharing your creative vision with an EFP crew
- Storyboards, shot lists, and shooting scripts: Tools and tips
- Insurance coverage and permissions
- Standards and best practices
- Specs for web delivery
- Specs for maximizing flexibility
- Ensuring correct specs for social media platforms
- Locations: What to look for, what to avoid, making room for gear, COIs
- Preparing your in-house talent: Pre-interviews, releases, what to wear tips
- Planning your schedule: Avoiding bottlenecks, keeping crew on schedule
- Other logistics: Day of shoot parking, security, loading, BTS photos, crew meals
- Tips for ensuring crew works well with you and your internal team
- Tips for interview-based productions
- Reminders for the crew prior to the shoot day
- Reminders for you prior to the shoot day
- Logistics: Load in, load out, staging, meals, and more
- Review your audio, video specs, and deliverables
- Metadata and your field footage backup plan
- Slating and room tone
- Three keys to producing successful crews
- Other relevant courses
