Camera setups per day, across a two-day shoot
Noel Paul on Mitski's "Where's My Phone?", shot over two days in mid-November 2025 in a Victorian gothic revival house upstate New York: "And we had to work fast. The shotlist was enormous. We did something like 35 setups per day."
Noel Paul on Mitski's "Where's My Phone?", shot over two days in mid-November 2025 in a Victorian gothic revival house upstate New York: "And we had to work fast. The shotlist was enormous. We did something like 35 setups per day."
Setups per day is the single most useful number a director can publish and almost nobody does. It tells you more about what a schedule actually felt like than a budget does.
The location had to sit inside the twenty-five-mile production zone radius around New York City. An FPV drone was considered and rejected: "the house was cramped and full of precious antiques, so an FPV drone wasn't possible. And anyways, I think they lack the finesse and personal touch you get with a handheld camera."
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