Re: Blurring the Background - Is it a good idea?

[Erik Waluska] "Director's love to screw things up and then just say "ah, well, we'll just fix it in post", but it's generally more expensive and time-consuming to fix things in post than to re-shoot."

This depends a lot on how many people need to be recalled to the set to re-shoot. It's a pain to have to fix something seemingly obvious like this, and the director should definitely get an earful for being oblivious, but in terms of combined man hours 1 person working for 12 hours to fix a shot may well be less costly than 8 people working for 2 hours.

Shots should be better planned from the beginning, but the correct solution after a shot has been flubbed is going to be dependent on a lot of factors and I think it's shortsighted to always default to "reshoot."

Besides... these are more billable hours for you :)

Darby Edelen