Unit 4- pre-production portfolio
Task 1- Pre-production
- Pre-production is the planning that takes place before the shooting of a film, TV show, commercial etc.
- The purpose of pre-production is to confirm all of the details of the project before shooting the film.
- Pre-production needs to take place so that everything goes well without any interruptions.
- Requirements of pre-production is to finalize everything.
- The difference between pre-production and production in general is that pre-production is all the planning and theory elements, whereas production is the filming and all of the practical elements.
- The difference between pre-production and post-production is that pre-production is all the planning and theory elements, whereas post-production is adding extra stuff into the project after it's been finished.
Task 2- Types
- Finance: Estimating the value of the suggested film
- Time: Timescales and deadlines for how/ when a film will be shot
- Facilities: Equipment for shooting, offices, places to shoot etc.
- Locations: Reliability on the locations that you can go to for filming and the risk factor that there may be.
- Personnel: The crew working on the film, e.g., camera crew, cinematographer, etc.
- Materials: Examples of materials used- Tripods, Camera lights, three-point lighting kit
- Codes of practice and legislation: Where the production crew must discuss and all agree with the film contract and and any other relevant authorities involved.
Task 3- Pre-production procedures of Jaws
-Budget of film - 9 million USD
-Breakdown of costs- Universal pictures covered the costs
-Locations- Edgartown, Massachusetts
-Timescale- May 2nd 1974 to October 6th 1974
Task 4- Sectors (film production)
-Some requirements that are involved in film pre-production are having to write a script, creating a script breakdown, forming a company, making a budget, creating a production schedule, getting together a crew, etc.
-Pretty much all sectors of pre-production involve something related to writing a script, forming a team and deciding a budget. These are some of the most important parts of forming a media product and going through the planning stages of it.
-However, some of the requirements may be different depending on how the final media product is going to be used. For example, an online game won't have a script because many do not follow a linear narrative. Another difference within pre-production is how through publishing digitally there is no need for a storyboard as the majority of digital publishing consists of e-books, e-readers, and mobile apps, meaning a storyboard isn't required
Conclusion-
In conclusion, the main requirements for pre-production are writing a script, creating a breakdown for said script, forming a production team, creating a budget, forming a production schedule, assembling a crew, start the creative planning process, designing a storyboard, making a shot list, revising the budget and shooting schedule, book the different shooting locations, hire the production crew and actors you want, start the rehearsals and prep, and send out the call sheets to everyone.
Learning aim B+C core assessment
Ideas of fictional film:
-The ideas that I thought up for the fictional film were how all of my group agreed on a horror film, with us ultimately agreeing on exactly how we wanted it to play out and what the outcome would be. The storyline was about a student who had split personality, and how his other half gets the better of him by the end.
Documentation of fiction film:
-Before we started to film, we had to complete some documents to help us along the way- giving us a better idea of the location we were filming in, the type of shots we wanted and how we wanted the scenes to play out.
Usefulness of the documents:
The documents we wrote up played a key role in the success of filming, allowing us to clearly outline our visions all the way through production. For instance, the shot list was helpful as it gave us clear directions as to how to frame everything we shot, making sure we were getting the shots we wanted in the first place. The location recce was important as it highlighted key information about where we were filming and what to expect from it throughout.
Standard of the documents:
The documents completed for this production were done to a very high standard. The documents completed such as the storyboard, script, shot list and location recce all served as a massive help to the whole group. Without such a high standard completion of these, we would've struggled whilst filming and subsequently how the final product turned out. However, a few documents such as the risk assessment weren't completed in as much detail because we didn't choose multiple locations to film.
Difficulty of the documents:
In general, the writing up of the documents weren't too hard, as they were research-based. For others they were more difficult such as ideas generation for the narrative breakdown and script. This was because throughout the production process my group had separate ideas, meaning we kept on changing our plans.
Learning aim D
Pros and cons of pre-production-
Within the creation of my groups production documentation, the pros were that all the documents were completed to a high standard, allowing us to easily follow them. Some cons were that a few of our actors were double booked with other groups on some days, meaning we couldn't film then.
Strengths and weaknesses of pre-production-
The strengths that I achieved for my pre-production and final product was how throughout all the documents, my group were fully familiarised with everything, which meant we didn't have to spend any time revisiting everything. However, some of the weaknesses were that we lost our documents at a pivotal time, meaning we had to revisit everything, making sure it was all there before we moved on.
Unit 10 pre-production documents
