Production Scheduling

Here is how this works in practice. We support production scheduling by bringing local knowledge of Iceland's location access windows, weather patterns and logistical constraints to your assistant director and line producer. Our team works from the script breakdown to help build a stripboard and shooting schedule that is realistic rather than optimistic, sequencing scenes so the unit moves efficiently around an island where distances are real and the Highlands open only in summer.

Here is the short of it. We schedule with the light, exploiting the long days of the Midnight Sun and protecting the brief, prized hours of midwinter, and we build genuine weather backup into the plan so a closed glacier day has somewhere to go rather than collapsing the schedule. We balance studio work at RVK Studios and other Reykjavik facilities against location days, factor in F-road and super-jeep travel time for remote units, and account for the finite openings of the country's small crew base. The result is a schedule that maximises productive shooting days while staying honest about what Icelandic conditions will allow.

Here is the breakdown. Scheduling a shoot in Iceland means working with one of the most extreme light cycles in the inhabited world. In June the Midnight Sun gives close to 24 hours of usable daylight, opening unusually long shooting days and flexible night work. By December only four to five hours of low light stay, with the aurora borealis appearing in the dark. Weather is the other ruling factor, fast-changing, often severe, and set to closing a glacier or Highland location with little warning.

Here is what that looks like on the ground. Access compounds it: the Highland interior is reachable only in summer via F-roads, the Ring Road circles a large island, and covered areas such as Vatnajokull and Thingvellir National Parks impose their own access planning. A schedule that ignores any of these realities will not survive contact with the shoot. Building the calendar around the country's season, light and weather from the outset is what keeps a production on track.