War Stories: Managing a Photo Shoot on Location

At the same time, you must pay close attention to the progress of the current shot. Otherwise, even a good crew will bog down in details. In any crew, there will be one or more persons who will slow down the crew. They usually aren’t doing this on purpose. It may be the photographer, who loves to tweak lighting. Or it may be the art director, who can’t quite decide to go to film. Or it may be the client, who keeps assuming that the crew will work things out but, at the final moment, sees that it isn’t so, steps in and throws a monkey wrench into the shot.