My Pre-Production Sucks

It’s time to come clean. Lay it all out there.

I suck at Pre-Production.

While walking around the house and watching Diego, I binge on YouTube. I tried watching movies or shows, but once Diego starts fussing I lose the plot. *Goliath* seems like a good show, but even Billy Bob Thornton can’t compete with a fussing baby.

So YouTube it is.

And of course, I watch a lot of stuff on making YouTube or films, and camera reviews (cuz I’m glutton for punishment).

In watching a few, I’m beginning to see a trend, that I knew, but it took about a hundred videos to make realize:

My pre-production sucks.

Like I don’t write scripts for videos, not anymore. I used to do it. I use to write scripts all the time -- not anymore. I don’t write down shot lists, location scout, storyboard, run camera tests, etc. None of it.

Nope.

Thinking about it, somewhere, somehow, I got into my head that I had this natural talent to just wing it. That I had learned or done all these things at some point in time where instinct would just -- just -- kick in.

Looking at the YouTube channel I actually get paid for doing -- somewhat -- tells me something different:

You don’t got it, kid.

You need to start thinking Pre-Production. You need to start preparing for things, so when the time comes, you can at least get something down that resembles a coherent piece of art or whatever the hell you’re making.