Contingency Plan

• Cast dropping out/ being unreliable/ being bad actors . 
• Crew being late . 
• Locations not letting you film there/ being too noisy/ having too many people in the background . 
• Battery running out on the camera . 
• Continuity problems (eg; filming one scene with a characters wearing a shirt with two buttons done up, and then accidently filming another scene with the character where he has three or four buttons done up)

 As a group we had to plan for our film in terms on what should we do if things go wrong such as, cast dropping out or being unreliable. If this situation occurs then we would have to have a understudy who would be up for doing this film opening sequence. This would also happen if our characters are bad actors, we would ask someone who is in the drama department who would be a good actor or actress and also if that he or she would take part in the opening sequence. 


If the crew is always turning up late, as a group we have to organize different meeting dates before so we would have more opportunities to film a certain shot, or direct the positions of the characters. 


Before filming as a group we would search up different locations and have a rough idea where we would like to locate our film and also find the correct setting, so if the location we chose will not allow us to film there, this would mean that we would have different ideas where to go next, as we have researched before actually just turning up to the location. If the location is being to noisy, the best possible idea to do is to move to a different location where as a group we have researched, or even attend to the location another day to see if the noise has lowered down. If there is too many people in the background, this could be very off putting as the film only consist with two characters only. This could mean if their is to many people shown in the background maybe move to a different location to film the characters. 


If the battery is running low on the camera we are filming on, the best thing to do before is to make sure we have another spare camera, so when the first camera run out of battery, we would have another camera to continue with the filming, so this will run very smoothly. 


For making sure that their is no continuity problems, we should put one person in charge of the continuity problems so they will have to write down before for the male character how his hair looks like, the costume that he is wearing, and this also means the setting in the background, if there is something on the wall then the camera comes back to the wall again and that something is gone, this is a continuity error, so as a group we would need to put one person in charge so hopefully no continuity problems will occur when filming.