Learning from assisting at shot fiction

1) Do to gym and build He-man kinda stamina if you need to work night shift and day shifts spanning 18 hours every day.
2) Assisting for a short time helps you know how things are on the set but assisting for sustained period of time will not help you incrementally. Make movies - that will teach you more and creatively help you.
3) Don;t have useless good for nothing people on the set - they only eat away your unit people's food and interfere by talking and spoil the sound quality and give there useless comments. Don't have them.
4) Define clear roles for your assistant. Earmark points of continuity for your assistants before hand. Have meetings with your assistant. Get them as charged as you are about the movie. Tell them that it is their movie also.
5) Rehearse with actors in advance.
6) Think twice before shooting rape scenes of small girl - esp with her parents around- and make sure that they are okay with the shots in advance. Be creative and aesthetic about those scenes if possible. Shield the child from the visual detaisl of gory drama - yo uare a human after all.
7) Take reliable actors - who will atleast show up.
8) Take good amount of inserts - they will be useful.
9) Have a good list of shots.