Thinking ahead - what could go wrong?

By pre-empting all the things that could go wrong, hopefully I'll be able to avoid them.

Organisation

• not having permission to film in location
• forgetting to pick up equipment
• leaving equipment behind on shoot
• returning equipment late/incomplete
• not knowing what you're doing on the shoot or why
• coming back to school with hardly any footage
• actors/team members not turning up or being late
• absence from school
• not turning up on the planning meetings
• time wasting on the shoot
• everything taking too long
• not pre-empting the weather
• not leaving enough time for transport problems

Communication

• not explaining yourself properly
• not speaking out and saying how you feel
• losing your patience with other people
• actors/team members not answering phones, or responding to group requests
• arguments in group
• last minute changes to the plan without full group agreement
• actors getting bored/annoyed/cold/hungry
• teachers left in the dark about changes to plans
• not recording notes/minutes/agreements on the blog
• absence from school, absentees not communicating with group to find out what's going on

Technical

• batteries not charged
• don't know how to use equipment
• not checking camera settings
• poor lighting
• poor sound
• shaky camera
• poor framing
• limited variety of shot distances, angles, movement
• poor consideration of continuity issues
• no understanding of technical health and safety issues
• forcing tapes or batteries and breaking the camera

Group

• one person doing everything and not delegating
• some people being lazy
• factions/divides in the group
• "spur of the moment" meetings without everyone there
• not sharing the "boring" jobs
• not sticking to the rule of everyone doing equal amounts of shooting/editing/lighting/directing etc.
• not listening
• not compromising
• getting stroppy
• not working as a team/being supportive of each other
• making it "personal"
• making excuses rather than getting the job done
• not tackling issues in the group as they arise
• being rude to another group member and upsetting them
• being too sensitive
• allowing personal problems to dominate proceedings

Hopefully we won't have any of these problems!