While shooting on location so many things play a role. Proper timing, personnel, and talent teams are vital to completing a task whilst cutting as much time as possible. It has been known that many productions take a minimum of 12 hours to complete. Many times these projects tend to bleed past a normal 12-hour day and become much more. While many resources help to make these days go by faster like hiring an On Time Elite vehicle for HMU or wardrobe or even talent holding, provide a certain order and balance throughout the workday.
Covid protocols
Even though covid vaccination has made working with one another safer covid testing still very much happens, now nearly two hours are absorbed from a production day just for testing, in the event that pre-screening does occur prior to anyone showing up on-site stricter protocols are put in place. Multiple vehicles from On Time Elite will be needed to house more personnel and more talent. Bringing in these units makes the day fly by smoothly and quickly but having little to no division on set will make the workdays that much longer.
Daylight
The most important aspect of filming on location is getting the desired conditions. If it’s weather, lighting, or daylight, it’s important for whatever shot you may need. That means if you need daylight, you would start before the sun comes up in order to get all of the preparation done before the sun even comes up. This also means there’s a timer on how quickly you need to accomplish your goals. If production gets delayed and the sun is going down, you need to extend production by another day. which can be extremely expensive. NYC weather is also very unpredictable. In the summer it can rain unexpectedly all the time. So it’s important to account for the weather on top of the daylight
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