The Planning process, Then and Now:
Main Project
Research on our Audience, and what they want to see in a film opening
Prelim
No Audience research needed, as we didn't have an audience
Planning of the concept of the sequence
Planning of the concept of the film, and the sequence
The Brief
The Brief
Continuity task involving filming and editing a character opening a door, crossing a room and sitting down in a chair opposite another character, with whom she/he then exchanges a couple of lines of dialogue. This task should demonstrate match on action, shot/reverse shot and the 180-degree rule.
Produce a 2 minute opening sequence of a fiction film. All video and audio material must be original, produced by the candidate(s), with the exception of music or audio effects from a copyright-free source. It should be clear from your sequence who the target audience is.
Creation of shot list and timeline
Creation of shot list and Storyboard
Quick Recee of the location
Creation of the Storyboard for the test shoot
Creation of shootboards
Detailed plan of each shot in top-down plans
Creation of shootboards
Kit organisation
Filming
Creation of Kit release forms and Cast organisation
Test Shoot
Fixing of issues from the Test Shoot
New Storyboard and shootboards
Detailed plan of each new shot in top-down plans
Kit release and Cast organisation
Main Filming
Much more complicated than the prelim as we had to take into account lots more concept areas such as genre and narrative theory
Loads more time than the prelim, so we had to plan out many more shots, and this took more time
More detailed than in the prelim, as we had to take into better account cast and call and rap times for each shot. However, we didn't have such a small amount of time.
Harder as there were more locations we had to work from and create plans for
More kit to deal with and transport to and from shoot to think about
We didnt have this in the prelim and it really helped our project, but it took a lot of time to work out what needed re shooting and what we could keep
Creation of the animatic from our storyboard to give us a better idea of how the shots would work all together
Work out if anything needs to be changed again, one last time
Creation of shot list and shootboards of what we wanted to re-shoot
Back-up shoot
Finished
Finished