Thank you both for your help. And just to give some circumstance, I was doing a project where I knew we needed to move fast, so while working on pre-pro, I drew up lighting charts, and attached rough times to each location. Obviously the unexpected happens, and things fall apart, but pulling it back together.. that's all part of film, or anything really.
So I showed the lighting charts to my crew of classmates, and had the talent run through lines while lights were being set up. This saved time. A couple lights blew, but it happens. At any rate, we were moving on schedule, and things were going well. Although, after breaking for dinner, people informed me that they needed to go do other things for a bit. I of course, let them. These people are friends. Unpaid classmates who are giving me their time. We reconvened later that night, fewer in numbers, but managed to get done one more scene. We were behind schedule at that point, although we were to meet back in two days to film the rest. I spent the time in between working on pre-pro and re-scripting so that the plot would still be evident, though needing less to be shot. The day of the next shoot came, and unfortunately, one of my two actors couldn't make it. This was for completely valid reasons, and I hold nothing against them, but it was unfortunate. The project was due the next day, the shoot was fifteen minutes away, I had one actress, and a crew of myself. So I had to rethink the entire thing. I shot the outdoor stuff and the narration piece that night.
So all that story just to give you an idea of where I was. I realize that in the greater world of production, talent and crew will be contracted. Although I'm just at film school now, and this is all practice for then. This below is the how the final project turned out, most all dialogue in the thing ended up not being included. Any feedback for that video would be appreciated as well. But what else would you suggest that I do during the pre-production, and production process to ensure that I can stay reasonably on schedule?
Thanks again.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zyFZK1QwOBY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zyFZK1QwOBY