Pre-production task 3
The logistics used to complete the production involved careful plans of the potential locations and any equipment we might have needed, the plans were split between everyone in our group so that we all got something done, I planned the Location Recces, Prop lists, Artist release forms, Risk assessments and Character breakdown sheets.
My initial role in the group was to picture the scenes in my head and write down any thing that was essential to the planning. Any risks, locations, character traits, props etc. They were all planned in my head before I wrote them down just confirm that they were essential elements for the production.
Shot lists, Call sheets, storyboards and locations were out of my control which means that I had to adapt to everyone else's plans and work around them in order to plan the Risk assessments, location recces etc. All of the plans between everyone were placed in a folder kept by our team leader and double checked everything in the folder before filming to confirm everything was done, budgets weren't planned because we were lucky to have equipment lent to us for the filming, the call sheets and shooting times were planned last once everything else was complete and the shooting times were worked around everyone else's schedules because we had to compensate for any days where any cast or crew were busy or working, our team leader and director Ellie focused on this part of planning and may have been the most challenging part to plan due to the amount of people to work around, she also had to plan make up and ask for permission for certain locations, the characters in our film were school students so we wanted uniforms to make it look authentic, luckily the actors were able to lend uniforms from others. Our cinematographer Olivia planned the shot lists for all the scenes in the script very carefully and was an important asset to the planning stage, without the shot lists, we wouldn't know what shots we would have wanted. My role for the group was assistant director and script supervisor, therefore during the planning stage, I would go through the script and find any plot holes or anything that could be changed and share my opinions with our team leader. Our team leader was responsible for personnel management as well because as the team leader she assign us any work that needed doing or improving, this helped us picture her vision for the film more clearly and allowed us to have more passion when creating it. We had planned the equipment beforehand to ensure that we were guaranteed to get some equipment in order to film because if we had waited then we may have gotten a bad quality camera.
In order to keep everybody including the actors informed and organised, we created a group chat in order to plan against any potential barriers and overcome them, this helped us immensely because on multiple occasions we managed to avoid disaster in planning and schedules because everyone used the group chat and if anybody had sudden plans, they could easily inform us, we also used call sheets for the actors just to make sure that they knew when and where to shoot. The schedule was stuck to quite well and our lunch breaks during filming were between 1-2 hours long in order to use all the time we had wisely.
The whole production was documented on my Blog, I documented when and where we shot, the scenes we filmed and any problems we ran in to during it.
Our Pre-production was managed phenomenally, everything was planned quickly and on time for the first shooting day. However I believe that we could have improved on our planning if we had planned certain shots in specific scenes better, we planned to use a drone for an overhead shot of a car speeding towards somebody in the road, however we failed to plan ahead for battery life and whether or not the chargers would work or not because the battery died while test flying the drone and the charger would not work. To compensate for this we just used a regular camera for a POV shot of the driver hitting the actor, Our night shoot was a disaster because the camera couldn't pick up our actors because it was too dark and because we failed to anticipate this, we had to push back filming for a few more days. We also planned to use a boom microphone during the outside shoots but we kept forgetting to get a long enough wire for the pole so we settled for the regular mounted microphone, this could have big difference in the audio quality and the amount of time it would have taken to shoot because we had to reshoot some scenes because of wind but now I will surely plan ahead for this in the future.
I also feel that we could have better prepared for the potential for actors to be late because when one of our actors was over an hour late for filming, we sat and waited instead of filming a different scene that didn't need that specific actor. This lesson will stick with me for the future and allow me to plan more thoroughly ahead.
My initial role in the group was to picture the scenes in my head and write down any thing that was essential to the planning. Any risks, locations, character traits, props etc. They were all planned in my head before I wrote them down just confirm that they were essential elements for the production.
Shot lists, Call sheets, storyboards and locations were out of my control which means that I had to adapt to everyone else's plans and work around them in order to plan the Risk assessments, location recces etc. All of the plans between everyone were placed in a folder kept by our team leader and double checked everything in the folder before filming to confirm everything was done, budgets weren't planned because we were lucky to have equipment lent to us for the filming, the call sheets and shooting times were planned last once everything else was complete and the shooting times were worked around everyone else's schedules because we had to compensate for any days where any cast or crew were busy or working, our team leader and director Ellie focused on this part of planning and may have been the most challenging part to plan due to the amount of people to work around, she also had to plan make up and ask for permission for certain locations, the characters in our film were school students so we wanted uniforms to make it look authentic, luckily the actors were able to lend uniforms from others. Our cinematographer Olivia planned the shot lists for all the scenes in the script very carefully and was an important asset to the planning stage, without the shot lists, we wouldn't know what shots we would have wanted. My role for the group was assistant director and script supervisor, therefore during the planning stage, I would go through the script and find any plot holes or anything that could be changed and share my opinions with our team leader. Our team leader was responsible for personnel management as well because as the team leader she assign us any work that needed doing or improving, this helped us picture her vision for the film more clearly and allowed us to have more passion when creating it. We had planned the equipment beforehand to ensure that we were guaranteed to get some equipment in order to film because if we had waited then we may have gotten a bad quality camera.
In order to keep everybody including the actors informed and organised, we created a group chat in order to plan against any potential barriers and overcome them, this helped us immensely because on multiple occasions we managed to avoid disaster in planning and schedules because everyone used the group chat and if anybody had sudden plans, they could easily inform us, we also used call sheets for the actors just to make sure that they knew when and where to shoot. The schedule was stuck to quite well and our lunch breaks during filming were between 1-2 hours long in order to use all the time we had wisely.
The whole production was documented on my Blog, I documented when and where we shot, the scenes we filmed and any problems we ran in to during it.
Our Pre-production was managed phenomenally, everything was planned quickly and on time for the first shooting day. However I believe that we could have improved on our planning if we had planned certain shots in specific scenes better, we planned to use a drone for an overhead shot of a car speeding towards somebody in the road, however we failed to plan ahead for battery life and whether or not the chargers would work or not because the battery died while test flying the drone and the charger would not work. To compensate for this we just used a regular camera for a POV shot of the driver hitting the actor, Our night shoot was a disaster because the camera couldn't pick up our actors because it was too dark and because we failed to anticipate this, we had to push back filming for a few more days. We also planned to use a boom microphone during the outside shoots but we kept forgetting to get a long enough wire for the pole so we settled for the regular mounted microphone, this could have big difference in the audio quality and the amount of time it would have taken to shoot because we had to reshoot some scenes because of wind but now I will surely plan ahead for this in the future.
I also feel that we could have better prepared for the potential for actors to be late because when one of our actors was over an hour late for filming, we sat and waited instead of filming a different scene that didn't need that specific actor. This lesson will stick with me for the future and allow me to plan more thoroughly ahead.
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