Copy the entire contents of each card to its own folder on TWO sets of storage.Detail one person to deliver camera cards from camera to the DIT station.When shooting stops, put a physical marker on each card indicating it holds source data (like a piece of red tape).I found creating a process checklist also helps to prevent mistakes. This doesn’t need to be their full-time job, but it does need to be their number one priority.
I always found it best to have one person dedicated to making backups of camera cards. It would have been a fun episode to watch.īased on that experience, over the years, I’ve focused a lot on storage, backups and archiving.Ī backup strategy starts on set, when the cameras stop rolling. To this day, I’m not sure how or where that shot got lost but I still miss it. That happened almost eight years ago – yet, I think about that missing scene and the lost episode frequently. Ultimately, we were forced to scrap the episode. Reshooting wasn’t an option first, there was no budget and, second, cast and crew had scattered to the four winds.
I had the close-ups and cutaways, but could not find the master shot. Later, as I was editing the final episode, I realized that we were missing the master shot for this final dramatic sketch. The A camera provided the master shot, with B and C cameras handling close-ups and reactions. We shot the scene using three cameras to give us the coverage we needed in the time that we had.
The last scene was a dialog between three actors illustrating how to give direction to actors to get the emotions the story required. We were wrapping production on the second, and final, season of.