Free measurements from takes made anyway

No take is made to check a method. You measure what the takes you made anyway can tell you, at no credit cost.

Every method in your shot plan is the one with the best evidence, used as written with its label (decided). The hero shot is its scene's sample, made like any other shot. Write the measurements as a short section of the plan. Each is a figure for you to weigh, never a new default on its own:

• the action-event floor: the shortest window that still reads, from the sample takes;

• the camera dose: delivered against written, per kind of move (push, arc, truck, handheld), and the drift on named locks, measured on the sample batch (see Camera and lens → Measuring the dose on the sample batch);

• parallax on the early trucks and arcs: whether the near and far layers part or slide as one card;

• the reaction log: each planned reaction's type and latency against frames every 0.5 s;

• the second-draft log: how often the second sample draft wins;

• the performance point and the tells list against your own verdicts (see The quality bar → The reference bar); drop rows that never fire after two projects.

Other free checks live with their stages:

• the jury kill check and the idea bar: The idea → The three jury kill checks;

• the placed voice and the mix flags: Sound design and mix → The placed voice;

• the three-page design check: Client presentations → The deck expresses the film;

• the 25 fps comparison on a 50 Hz TV, with the first TV version: Graphics, captions, versions and delivery → 25 fps TV versions by speed-up.

Sources

• This Guide's rule: learn from work others have proven, and measure only what normal takes show.