Hello,
first, I'd like to introduce myself, my name is Kamil Beer, I'm from Czech republic and this is the first time I'm here :) Me and my team are already filming a movie, it has been about a year since we started. It is a very unique movie and I wouldn't really like to spoil it here.
We had some major "adventures" since we began - at first, it was just a crazy idea, which suddenly came into reality... we had our first meetings and after several people fell off, what stayed was a great team of dedicated filmmakers.
We currently have a team of a Director (me), two PAs, Photographer, Sound master, two cameramen, a Script and a webmaster.
We started shooting in November, and a painful issue had already risen: How to schedule the shooting properly.
My initial approach was to get every member to tell me a time when they would be able to shoot (and tell them several days in advance) and shoot with them once a week, but after FOUR(!!) bailouts (for less or more important reasons) by an important actor or crew member and a month without shooting, I believe the time has come to take a different approach. My initial idea was to film more frequently, like two or three times, so if one is cancelled, we'd still have time to shoot.
What would be the best approach in this situation? Thanks a lot, I really hate cancelling the meetings.
-K