Donald of Mars: Chapter 82, Shooting at Li’s

Donald find out that shooting a show that has where you can and have to shoot things over, is lot different that a live show.

Never less than three, sometimes as many as five people trying to shoot a remodeling show inside Li’s tiny apartment challenged Donald in ways that often had him second guessing that idea. It also required redoing some of that work multiple times with a lot more wasted materials than he liked. Twice yesterday they pulled up perfectly laid tile and scraped off all the adhesive because what they shot had problems. Some of those were chipped pulling them up. And they would have to order more adhesive before they finished.

It was time to put his foot down. “We are not doing this over unless you are going to throw out the footage from the past two days! There is to be nothing in the end video that is not what was done to get that. Yes, redoing this job so it is still wet so you get the right shot will only take up four hours, but redoing while shooting is going to take two days.”

“I have to agree with Donald here,” said Larry. “We are shooting this for people that actually have done some of this work. Those trained eyes would catch the switch and assume we had to have ‘professionals’ come in behind us and clean up a mess we made. If we have to redo something, then no footage of what we pull out can be used. Now have we wasted the past two days and need to throw that out? If so, we can reshoot, but we need to understand why and figure out how to not do that again.”

“Two days?” Fredrick said. “I’m only talking about reshooting the past two hours.”