Following up on the last lesson, it would also be wise to start pre planning how many and what kind of crew cast locations as well as other resources you would need to produce your short film. For my short film The painter, I use this part of the planning process to decide if the idea is worth the time and effort producing or not given other circumstances. Now, you can do that too, especially if you're still stuck on an idea to see whether your idea can even really be executed in your timeframe. start asking yourself the following questions. How many cast members do I need? What kind of quality of cast members do I need?

Do I just need a silent straight face actor or someone that can do more improv and adjustments on the fly? locations are so important and the less locations you have in your story, the better and easier to start with and to focus on the story. So ask yourself this, how many locations do I need? Do I really need those locations for my story to work? Are any special equipment or facilities I would need to get for the production. For example, the painter needed a green screen studio for two scenes.

Do you need that? Ideally, you would want to match your time requirements to the resource requirements to see if your current rough timeline for the entire project fits the complexity of your cast, crew locations, and other resources required. Now, if you're a note taker, like me, you could use Word doc or Excel or whatever you're comfortable with, to list some ideas in your mind or the answers to the questions listed in this lesson. All in order. It is important to remember that even if your story idea seems too big or too tight pensive, you have to still finalize your story idea choice based on passion and practicality. In the next section, we will put all these thoughts in your head onto paper and into proper documentations.

Yay. Sorry, I'm just, I'm just getting ahead of myself. Personally, I really love documentations in documenting stuff. So really looking forward to the next lesson.