Planning.
Added 2016-08-29 23:22:57 +0000 UTCThe last 4 episodes were prepared well ahead of time and gave me a good 6 weeks of time to catch up on my life. I took roughly 3 days off, had a visit from my executive producer, better planned out our rough approach to the rest of the series, managed to disassemble a Lewis magazine, worked up the rough for this year's poster, ran the T-shirt campaign, sifted archives for video and photos, and stocked up on reading material.
So I managed roughly 50 hours of work a week. Which is apparently what I count as a vacation now. Of course, some things broke. We missed auctioned pieces due to funds, had acquired pieces break down, ammunition woes, the range flooded again and stalled production, piles of translation to start, and I haven't worked up just how to do the whole Lewis episode.
Plus, just how to approach MGs is kicking our butt. They are slow and expensive to move legally, we can travel to them but Mae and Jay have day jobs, which don't blend with heavy travel, heavy equipment, belts of ammo (so no easy flying), and the need to burn 8 hours per gun of dedicated filming and photography. We have some ideas but right now very little is proven.
Now all of this would be pretty approachable but for one thing: we chose to work from a close list. Right now, yeah we have stuff in the vault we can take out and shoot tomorrow. But if I burn all that at once all that is left the hard stuff. So the game now is to try and move on the most difficult pieces as soon as possible and prevent a burn out at the finish line.
