Wednesday, 24 February 2016

Pre-Production Report (Draft-Resubmission)

Pre-Production report by Daniel Storey

1) Type of production

The type of production that I ma making is going to be a 1 minute short film where it is going to be uploaded into Youtube where it is part of our coursework for BETC Media Level 3 at Christ the King (St Mary's) so it can be watched worldwide by an audience who are interested in short films or possibly feature films. My short flim will be a linear production because it will show the beginning, middle and end of the short film but since the genre of the film is going to be thriller, it will have the use of low key lighting which will give mystery and suspense for the audience whilst they are watching this film.

2) Finance

For my short flimw, it is going to be low budget compared to an actual film because we are not getting a famous director, actors and actress to be in our film due to the fact we do not have the money to ask them to do that instead we are going to do it ourselves but in a group with other two people which will be.

The budget for my short flim is going to be between £20-£30 where I am going to pay for the props for what I am going to use for my film to make it more realistic like for example: fake blood, police tape etc but also I will need to buy food because so it will motivate the filming crew to do their job and they could get rewarded in the end but with the equipment, I will be hiring a camera that has an SD card in it and a tripod. I will not needed to pay at all because it will be able to hire it at our college by booking it and returning it by a certain amount of days but if the equipment that is hired by myself does go missing and can not find it at all, then I will need to pay for a new camera and tripod because it is my responsibility to look after the equipment.

Since I have an Oytser Zip Card, the traveling to different locations that I have planned to film with my crew can be free with the use of buses but if I have to travel on a train or tube to get a certain location, then I will need to pay by topping up my oyster zip card to make it easier to travel to the location. 

Budget: Between £20 to £30

Props that is needed for my one minute short film: £`10
Food that will need the production team: £15
Camera and Tripod is going to be provided by the college
Mac Suite (Facilities) will be used at anytime at the college
Transport: Since I have an Oyster Zip Card, it is free by traveling on the bus but I will need to pay £10.00 if I use the transport of a train or tube to get my location that I decided with my film crew to go and film the scenes. 

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 flim, 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 runis 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. The people that are in my group are Lawrence and Shanee who I was put into groups with but the jobs were chosen in terms of our experience and how well we can do to it well..

Myself: Director, Cameraman and Actor
Lawrence: Producer
Shanee: Editor, Production assistant

5) Facilities

After completing the Pre-production stage where I am planning to shoot at which location and getting organized of how it is going to be played out of getting a production crew, writing up the script, drawing up a storyboard etc, we move on the production stage of film-making because myself and my filming crew will need to go to the location that I send my scout to find the best possible ones that it will fit in with the film which is going to get made but the equipment is needed to make this possible.

The Production equipment that I will need: Camera with a SD card, Tripod, Rode Microphone and Rode Boom-pole 3m which these types of equipment is available at the college and can be used at anytime but compared to the film industry, I will need for this. After the production stage is done, you will move to the post-production stage where I will need to use a Mac Suite that has editing software Final Cut Pro X so I can edit my short film which is provided by the college because it is available to be used at anytime but again in the film industry, I will need to pay to use an editing suite.

6) Materials

All the original material of the footgae that we will be filming will our own because in the group of three, we will decide what material (like for example, where piece of music that is going to be used to make the short film fit into the category of a thriller) that could eb changed duirng the pre-production stage of making a film but you can use existing footage for the flim which you may need permission from the holder to use it.

Copyright free music is where a buyre 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 perosn 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 flim, 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 short film but will earned the most money in the film industry but I will need to get their permission from the people that are going to be part of the production with the crew by making sign an release form because if they could their mind of not being part of the short film which can cause problems with the final product as I have to find other people to be part.

8) Locations

I will have someone to scout for finding good locaoitns as someone will may consider them if it good enough but I will need ask the local Council for a Kent flim 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 and with the location of my short flim, it is going to be in the wodds in South East London as it will fit in with the conventions of the grene of a thriller film which I am making because it will be ideal to use to create mystery and suspense. Also, you need to check the weather everyday to make sure that you will go on the right day to film but depending on the 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

BBCF (British Bardo Of Flim Classification) is a ono-govenmenrt organization where it gives a classifications of flim and gmaes 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 short film 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.

The ASA (Advertsting Stnatards Authority) are responsible for regulating the advertsting that is going to be shown on television because they need to make that the advert for my short film is not mislead for my intended audience so it does not cause any offense but Health and Saftey is very important as well because the people that are working on the short film need to be protected from any danger that could appear during the filming on this so by making a risk assessment on the location that we are going to start filming, we will know where are the dangers to be careful.

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