Pre-Production Process Essay

Evaluation

During the Pre-production I think I personally could've made a little more effort and contributed to the planning of shot lists and storyboards. I an extremely happy with the outcome of chopping and changing ideas to adapt to the obstacles that we faced such as being unable to film in a certain location because of health and safety risks but being able to film in another appropriate location and adapting the narrative to fit in with some of the things that kept being shot in the background. I would like to of contributed more to editing as it's not something I am comfortable with but is something I want to learn and become stronger at. I really liked the thought of being able to create something in a group that was completely down to our creative freedom and meant that we could learn different skills from each other as a team and share different ideas. It was frustrating that there were a lot of things that meant filming got postponed but we successfully completed filming and editing within the time frame. The feature I liked most in our production was the fight scene which was used completely with silhouettes on the wall using just a soft box lighting and a white wall so simple yet so effective and worked so so well for our narrative.

Storyboards

The Intial Idea for our Production-Hitting the Wrong Notes

The idea for our Depict production is about a upcoming young singer in the recording studio recording her new album. Things aren't going to well to the record producers standards and he begins to get angry and aggressive to the singer and decides to kidnap her and keep her captive in the studio. We wanted to create a fight scene using 'restricted narrative' using nothing but silhouettes to create a horror/ intense feeling.

Hitting the Wrong Notes- Depict! Production

Location Recce Form and Photos

Depict! Pre-Production Planning

Evaluation- A Change of Hands

For our first practical Induction Task, we had to create a short film that involved something to change hands. As a group we decided that our narrative would be following two people on their way to meet each other as tey exchange a mystery package. Our main goal was to ensure that the short film included a narrative of changing hands and continuity. Our film was set on a small recreation ground near college and then following on into college as in our production time we used our time in lessons to create this piece and so that meant the college premises was most convenient for us at the time and it was a simple setting which fitted perfectly for our narrative. As are task was to ensure that we kept to the continuity rules it meant we had to make sure the clip ran smoothly and there where no mistakes. We were successful with costumes as they were the same throughout. The music didn't really fit in with the clip meaning that it didn't really run smoothly in terms of continuity. So in terms of improvement I think looking back I would definitely think about the soundtrack to the production more carefully and making sure it fits the narrative appropriately. I think the black and white filter worked really well in the majority of the shots when the lighting was good enough however some parts of the college had different contrasts to others meaning again the continuity rule was broken. The cinematography also worked well and the shot types in particular the close-ups were a highlight of mine but at times some of the timing was a little out in the shots with our hands in, but timing is another feature to consider next time ensuring continuity.

Connotations Photo Exercise

In this Task we had to work together as a group to provide photographs of particular narratives to create connotations of particular scenarios for example having someone sitting in the middle of a red and yellow speed bump was our connotation for danger.