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Given the following post, respond as if you're commenting on Reddit:
human
ELI5: Why does video production take so long? I have a friend who was in a commercial last year and did two 12-hour days for it, but was only on screen for like 3 seconds. And it wasn’t even an ad with special effects- just him in a car making a face.
gpt
Because they require a lot of people, dozens, possibly a hundred or more in larger productions, all being where they’re supposed to be at the right time.

The lighting crews, the sound crews, the camera crews, the actors, the make up artists, the crews who provide catering to all these people, everyone, needs to make sure they get their job done at the right time when’s it’s needed.

And now you’re in charge of it all, what is easier?

A. Coming up with a complicated hour-by-hour schedule of when people need to show up and then when they can leave, and hoping that it runs perfectly smoothly and nothing goes wrong or gets messed up or no one is late.

Or

B. Just have everybody just show up and be there the whole time so you don’t have to worry as much about a scheduling nightmare. And if something does go wrong the people who can fix it are still their, and none of the actors will ever be late because you made them show up 4 hours before they’ll probably get infront of the camera.


Tl:dr it’s way simpler and causes less headaches to just have everyone involved in a shoot be there the whole time, instead of making a complicated ass schedule.