The Rules of Video Production

• Why does the special piece of equipment you ordered only arrive one day after you need it?
  
  
• Why is it that when you've cut out all the fluff, and half the stuff you wanted to keep, the program is still one minute too long?
  
  
• Why does one of the sequences always go missing?
  
  
• Why is the camera never rolling during the best take of the day?
  
  
• Why are problems with the script only identified during editing?
  
  
• Why is it that only after you finish fixing it in post do you realize it would have been faster and easier to reshoot?
  
  
• Why is it that effects can make a good clip great, but they can't make a bad clip average?
  
  
• Why does upgrading software in the middle of a project never save time or make things better?
  
  
• Why does the audience never appreciate the things you spent the most time on?
  
  
• Why does a little music make everything ten times better?
  
  
• Why do you have to have been there and done it, to appreciate this list?