PREPARATION VS. IMPROVISATION

I feel that when it comes to whether I perform best when I am prepared or when I improvise is a 50-50. I am a lot calmer and feel more in control if I am well prepared. I guess that is natural for everyone. If a shot is planned out then I feel safe and confortable doing it, as there is thought behind it and it is nice to have less to think about. However this can lead to me also freaking out a bit, if everything is planned really specifically and for some unforeseen reason it does not go as planned, improvisation is really important.

If I have no plan and go into a shot planning on winging it, and improvising the whole thing if find that some really cool stuff, often more interesting than the planned shots, can come out of it. However I often feel like it takes far longer, because it’s not as if there is not planning at all, the planning just kind of happens in the moment, which can often make a shoot drag out for an extremely long time.

This is why I think it is important for me to be well planned for my shoot, however not so planned that it restricts me from improvising on the day. I guess I could almost say in my plan I need to organize time to improvise so I am not blocking off any interesting work.

REST OF SEMESTER: Practice doing a planned out shoot as well as fully improvised and then do one to try and create a good medium.