Low-budget filmmaking tip #172

If you’re shooting after dark, be sure you’ve visited the set after dark.  Know where all the random sources of light are coming from and try to deal with them in advance.  A crazy night of playing “avoid the neighbor’s porch light” could have been easily handled by a visit to them a couple days before to arrange for the bulb to be pulled for that night.

This one I learned on the set of “The Statement of Randolph Carter.”