Time management of equipment is crucial to ensure all necessary items are available simultaneously for shooting. Certain equipment can only be used during specific times or with limitations, and some pieces must be booked months in advance. As a student film, equipment will be available according to the college's schedule rather than a professional budget. Crew and personnel will also need to be scheduled, though less hiring is required than for a professional film.

1. Time
Availability of Equipment
It is vitally important that the duration that equipment is hired is timed
appropriately. To elaborate, it is important to ensure that all equipment needed
successfully film a particular shot are available at the same time. Time is
exceptionally important to manage with regards to equipment, as certain items
of equipment are only available to use at certain times and with limitations.
Additionally, some pieces of equipment often have to be booked in advance – this
could take up to booking equipment up to months before planned use. Therefore,
if time is not managed thoroughly it may result in not having certain items of
equipment when it comes to filming.
As opposed to the professional film industry, our film will be produced with
college equipment. Therefore, we will have to hire our equipment at the
availability of the college instead of hiring or buying them professionally from
our own budget.
Another aspect of time we will need to cover is crew and the people that we have
access to on set. Because we aren’t in a professional filming environment, we are
able to save time with regards to hiring sound technicians and editors. However
if we were making a film professionally we would have to do this properly.