The Importance Of Contingency Planning

Contingency planning is extreamly important when it comes to videos and movies because a contingency plan is basicly a backup plan or a plan B, so if the main idea of the project has failed then thats when this comes into play, theres many differnt ways this can happen for example they had no choice but to use the contingency plan on the blockbuster film "Lord Of The Rings", as seen in the extras and bonus footage of the DVD, they go into a fair amount of detail and discribe what they had to do when it started raining and they had to use a hotel, to continue filming.

Some of the examples of Contingency Planning that we discussed today would be things like if actors were late or did not show up, or if like in Lord Of The Rings, the weather was not very good, so in cases like that we would have to move inside or shoot a scene with rain, things like if actors get hurt, in that case we would have to have a Medical Kit ready and there must be contracts in place so we dont end up getting sued, there could also be problems with the props or other equipment, and in that case they would have to be fixed, backed up, or done a differnt way alltogether such as doing it digitaly. they are just a few of the many reasons why contingency planning is so important.

date: wednesday 10th of october