Planning to Film Pack

Now you have completed your research

Start your planning and filming

Filming

• You need to film over the half term

• Use the planning documents in this pack to aid your filming

• You MUST have footage to edit when you get back from half term

• Filming is priority for the half term!

Research Check List

Analyse

Music Film TV Soap

3 Music Videos 3 Film Trailers 3 TV Promos

3 Music Magazine Adverts

3 Film Magazine Front covers

3 TV Listing Magazines

CD/DVD Digipack

Film Posters TV Soap Posters

Research

• Questionnaire • Survey monkey• Focus groups• Target audience portfolio

• Analysis of Research– What did you find out?– What did you learn?– How does this affect your planning?

Treatment

• Sum up your research

• Your idea/artist

• Your Target audience

• Your vision

• Technology used

• Planning schedule

Pre Production Ideas

• Initial Ideas for trailer

• Initial Pitch for trailer/promo

• Drawings of magazine/posters

• Use online programmes to create posters/magazines/digipacks

• Show each stage of your process!

Planning

• Permissions• Location scouting• Risk assessment• Job roles• Budgets• Production schedule• Shot Lists• Storyboards • On how to write a script click here

Permissions

• Have you got permission to use your music/artist?

• Have you e-mailed them? (unsigned)

• Have you e-mailed the record company

• Screen shot your permissions e-mail (above)

• Upload it to blog

Casting

• Who will be in your trailer/promo?

• Take pictures of potential characters

• Set auditions and record them

• Analyse who you chose and why?

Location Scouting

• Location scouting is a vital process in the pre-production stage of filmmaking. Once scriptwriters, producers or directors have decided what general kind of scenery they require. Location scouts also look for generally spectacular or interesting locations beforehand, to have a database of locations in case of requests.

Location scouting

• What locations are you thinking of using?

• Take pictures of various locations

• Analyse them

• Produce a risk assessment for your location

Risk assessment

• Fill in this risk assessment for your chosen location

Job roles

• Who is doing what and when?

• Produce a production schedule

Date Production Task

Role Technology used

What will you be doing?

Who will be doing it?

What technology will you be using?

Props?

• Call sheets

• Shot lists

• Storyboarding

• Use the documents goffsmedia.yola.com

• And check out this Amazing site!

Fancy Presentations

• http://www.screencast-o-matic.com/

• http://www.techsmith.com/jing/

• http://prezi.com/

• http://www.slideshare.net/

• Upload the above fancy presentations on your yolasite…they look great!