In the report I will be detailing the process I went through
managing and organising my one minute short film. One of the thing I have learn
is that it is important that you have all props ready for the short film that
you want to film, without the correct props I believe it takes away from the
true vision of the film. Another thing I have learnt while shooting my one minute
short film is that is important that you have a contingency plan in case
something goes wrong for example when you are doing a recee, if something
happens and you are not able to shoot at that location you may find yourself in
a difficult position.
At the beginning of our pre-production the roles was divided
between everyone on the production team and everyone knew what their roles were
and what they had to do.
Our shooting schedule was completed roughly around the times
we were given permission to shoot on our locations that we were able to secure
by us calling up the owner of the site and booking. The times we agreed on worked well for us which
made our shooting schedule very realistic and easily able for us to work around
and it was detailed as we had what times and how many hours we will be shooting
and at what location it also contained the materials required for us to carry
out our shoot efficiently also our shooting schedule had contingency plans as
well included in it in case we needed to do re shoots or pick up shots and also
contained who was needed present and also what materials and times we will be
doing so. One weakness we had was that the story board and shot list wasn't completed
early enough so that set back the shooting schedule as it needed to have the
shot list numbers of the shots that we were going to shoot on specific days and
that couldn't be done until the shot list was ready and completed.
Our storyboard was detailed enough to cover a 1 minute short
film however if revised upon it would be
able to cover a 5 minute short film, the storyboard had to worked on in stages
because it wasn't detailed enough the first time around. Also it had to be worked
upon because the idea had changed from the original one. For the most part of
our shoot, things went according to the story board but we had to change our
location at the last minute as the original one we wanted to use was
unavailable at the time. The storyboard was very meaningful and help us to
carry out parts of our shoot effectively and the storyboard was done in such a
way that we could easily followed the only problem was that the story board
didn't contain the rule of thirds but the camera operator was able to work
around the camera to produce the rule of thirds on the screen of the camera
that made us shoot but overall it was a good story board it made it clear what
directions the characters were walking it was easy for someone who doesn't know
about the production to walk on the scene and will understand the whole concept
by just looking at the story board.
The taken list contained comparative information including
the shot types and the shot list was also mirrored on the filming script which
managed to get easier for all of us as we understood what taken we were likely
to use by looking at the filming script
which refereed us to the shot list where almost all of the info, the
other plus side to the filming script was that it also helped out in how
exactly we were heading to create the images there by conserving us plenty of
time and we're able to also get back to the shot list if we were caught up for
example we were at the place and we wished to do an establishing shot and other
pickup pictures and we didn't genuinely have a concept of what structure of
shots to utilize however when we viewed the shot list it provided us the
pictures and compositions that people were designed to us for our establishing
and grab shots. Towards the finish of our blast we'd to twitch our shot list
because one in our locations that people were designed to use was called off
and we'd to improvise and use the new location that people got, after that
overall the shot list was good and incredibly effective.
When picking right up our location we investigated various
things that will make it problematic for us to film in those locations that
have been lightning and history noise,
first of all we could actually secure the permissions to take on each
location that people used which managed to get possible for us to take because
we didn't have an instance where we were kicked off a certain location because
we didn't possess the permission to capture there, we also consider the sound
element in our locations especially in the place we knew that people would look
at a lot of sound from the coach and pedestrians walking by so we made our
script so that we averted dialogue and anticipated compared to that we didn't
use the audio from the initial video footage from the place but ion any office
in other to include some realism to it we used the audio from the initial
footage since it was more quite and the audio could be easily found by the
camera also we'd our own lamps system which we didn't have initially and ruined
our first capture because the light at work was ridiculous as well as the
lighting from the place so we'd to re do
those images.
We could actually secure celebrities for our t-shirt film
through the pre-production techniques and could encourage them to complete all
the documents required plus they were ready from the role that these were given
however when it got development levels we couldn't utilize them because these
were active on the week of the filming doing examinations therefore we'd to
improvise and we made a decision to choose two different people between your
group who could work plus they both performed the role that these were
allocated to correctly well largely because we'd the primary notion of the
brief film already thought and what character types were designed to do.
Because we acquired an early observe that our actors will not be able to react
those elected between our team experienced a day to rehearse and also we'd an
undesirable shot and we'd to re throw the first little bit of the brief film
which provided them more experience in what they are simply designed to do
because they have got did it before and seen places that they made flaws it was
much easier to correct.
Inside our group before we started out doing anything we
managed to get clear what everybody's role was and I the creation manger
ensured that everyone do what these were designed to do and through the pre
development process everyone performed what these were in a position to and
also during creation everyone needed responsibility with their assignments in
other to ensure that people met our set in place deadline.
We could actually get all the gear that people needed except
the light pack that your institution ran out of but we first got it prior to
the end in our blast, for our camcorders to ensure that they don’t go out of
life we'd two battery packages and a charger to impose the consumed battery as
the we use the other we performed the same for the lightning load up and we
ensured our tri pod was working correctly fine. We checked the battery life
whenever we set up to shoot and also during shooting. We also ensured that the
camera and other equipment were working properly fine before we used them
inside our shoot.
The decision sheet was quite effective which made us really
know what time to access our locations looked after made sure that folks were
there promptly looked after help the staff to addressing the locations as it
also possessed the locations and pictures of the precise located area of the
locations on the map.
Also the decision sheet covered the figures and the email
messages of the staff members which managed to get easier for all of us to
contact the other person or go away across information. The decision sheet
managed to get a list of guidelines for all of us to really know what equipment
we needed and if indeed they were on collection as well as the people needed on
place as well and managed to get that everyone and everything was present at
the set in place.
