Short film Seperation

I used my script. I got the concept from a song. It basically shows the struggles between parents falling out of love and kids having to deal with the pressure. Our process didn't go quite as plan. It fell apart. Originally we were going to pick another girls script, but things fell through and we ended up not having enough/ the right actors for hers. We planned everything out, meaning locations, costumes, dates, and etc. We did not have time to do storyboards because of the fact that we only had three days to complete this whole short film.  My job was the editor. Their are a couple things that I would change, for one the volume levels and also some of the shots that I had no ability to change.

I was not able to film due to a soccer tournament, however I did find actors and allowed my group access to my house. When I got back home I regretted not being there, but there was nothing I could do about it. I was told that our director Shelby was in charge of watching the dogs by our DP Franchesca and AP Ryan.  That definitely was not okay and to me it felt like Shelby shouldn't have even came. Another thing that went wrong is that my group (DP) decided to use two different cameras. Why on earth? I have no clue. The cameras are two different qualities and looked completely different. I got home and had 30 minutes until I had to leave for my final game. Franchesca had to leave because she got called into work. She took her camera and so I called her. I asked her why she didn't at least leave her camera and her reply was that her mom wouldn't allow her to do so. I had a camera that worked perfectly fine and a way better quality than hers with a tripod and a microphone attached before I left the first time. Little things like that set our group up- for not quit for failure, but definitely in the wrong direction.

What I could do differently was to plan out more. If we did the story boards we'd know every shot to do and not lose track of time. We'd also make a plan to put the dogs into a friends house, so that wouldn't be a problem. I'd also make sure we'd use one camera and film over a period of time, not all just in one day. I'd use the same actors and the same director because I think it'll work out better.