1) Type of production
The type of production that I am making for my short film will be a web-serial as this is part of my coursework for BTEC Media Level 3 at Christ the King (St Mary's) and after it has been completed, it will be uploaded onto YouTube where my target audience which are teenagers can watch my short film but it follows the character's story-lines through different episodes but does not conclude after a pilot episode. My short film will be a non-linear production because it will show flashbacks and flash-forwards which will give mystery and suspense for the audience while
2) Finance
BFI or also known as the British Film Institute is where it supports to provide Lottery funding through a film's development, production and distribution activity in the United Kingdom which is the largest public film funding as well. Every year, they make exactly £26 million but the budget of that will increase £30 million by 2017. With the National Lottery Funding, the money is given to 12 independent organisations where each of them got a very good knowledge of different sectors that they work on but if the British Film Institute applys to get funding from the National Lottery, they would get between £10,000 to £30,000.
Equipment and its costs:
- Sony HXR-MC2500E Camcorder: £1,073.36
- PhotoSEL LS21E52 Softbox Studio Lighting Kit: £85.00
- RODE Boompole 3m: £80.19
- RODE Deadcat GO Microphone: £17.99
- Hama Star 61 Tripod: £16.85
With our college, you not have pay for anything as the equipment can be used at any given time due to the fact that they pay for it. Transport will be free for us as we got Oyster Card Zip to use to get on the bus, train and underground tubes but using this means that you will be able to carry the equipment with me.
3) Time
In the film industry, you have to schedule the time of when you have plan what area of the Pre-Production, Production and Post-Production stages that people will be set to working on. When a deadline is set to finish making your film and if you do not meet a certain deadline, then you have to pay for insurance for not completing the film or carry on filming it until it is completed but in other colleges including CTK, the teacher will mark your work as unmarked. At CTK, we have a booking system where you can book a time to use a editing suite or use the equipment for filming like a camera, tripod etc. But you need to make sure to return to them but if it is lost or damaged, then you will have to pay for new one which will come out of your bank account.
4) Crew and Personnel
Before undertaking of starting making our film, we need to get a crew to work on my short film like Director, Cameraman, Sound engineer etc. This is because if you do not have a crew to help produce your film, then you will be struck to do anything but with your plan in ruins but the crew that I will pick needs to have certain skills and experience to be able that the job is being done correctly which in the film industry, they do the same thing by checking people's CV to see if they got the experience and skills to do an certain jobs in a film but also they make sure it is right decision to get that person.
5) Facilities
The Production equipment that I will need: Camera with a SD card, Tripod, Rode Microphone ,Rode Boom-pole 3m.
Post-Production equipment: Editing suite with a Mac computer that has Final Cut Pro X
An editing suite can be used at the college anytime but in the industry, you have to pay money to a company for you to use an editing suite.
6) Materials
Copyright free music is where a buyer pays for a music license but after that is done, they are able to use it for long as they want but with Royalty, if a person wants to use a copyrighted piece of music then it is possible for them to phone the people that hold the rights to the music and pay £500 in advance so they will not strike you with a copyright infringement.
7) Contributors
Before you start making your short film, it is very basic that you will need to get actor and actresses to be part of it as well because they will be playing different characters in it which will get him or her credited at the end of the film or web-episode but will earned the most money in the film industry.
8) Locations
I will have someone to scout for finding good locations as someone will may consider them if it good enough but I will need ask the local Council for a Kent film license because if a person goes and films in public without permission from the authority, then you will get in trouble and possibly get charged by them. Also, you need to check the weather everyday to make sure that you will go on the right day to film your short web-serial and I will need access to transport my crew and equipment to site which it needs to get permission.
9) Codes of practice and regulation
BBFC (British Broad Of Film Classification) is a non-governmental organisation where it gives a classifications of film and games like for example: U, PG, 12A/12, 15 and 18 ratings depending on how much strong language, violence, sex etc is in a single film by which they watch a film which is sent by a big film companies like Universal Pictures or Warner Bros. With my web-serial if I sent my film to them, they would watch it and give you back information of what rating they are giving it but since it is going on to YouTube, it will not need to be sent to them.
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