Identification

Recce? What is a recce ?

A recce is when you need to consider having a plan B for every aspect of your short film production, if something suddenly goes wrong you will always have something to fall back on.

A recce is an essential part of the preparation and research processes to meet potential contributors, assess locations and research stories.  Carry out as many recces as your budget and time will allow as this will arm you with information that you can use to plan your script and filming schedule.

For example, You have been waiting for months to film your shoot, it comes down to the day of the shoot and your camera man calls in sick last minute. If you did not have recces then you would be in serious panic... However because you have considered recces, you call in your plan B camera man so the shoot can continue like nothing ever happened.