Pre-Production by Harvey

Pre-production

Our first job to do in our prelim task was to pick our groups that we work in. We had to pick people who we thought we would work well together. We would need to make sure we had trustworthy people and friends with in our group, this is important so we would not fight over who does what when delegating work around the group. Conflict would cause disaster as it would disrupt our group’s teamwork and team work is very important in this task. After this we received the brief, within our prelim we had to encumber the following; the 180 degree rule, shot reverse shot and match on action. Obviously we did not know what these were so we had to research them. Our main source of research was the lessons provided by Mr Sheriff and Mr Clifford in these lessons we looked in depth into these rules. After this we had a lesson to watch previous prelim videos for inspiration and to create a story board this was our first plan. Our story board was our creative input as a team it was our very first endeavour into film making. This is the process when we plan our prelim we planned everything down to the finest of details such as camera shots, camera angles and setting. In this process we had to draw what each and every shot looked like we learnt that this is one of the most important steps into making a film, we also learnt that to make a good or effective thriller we must take care in this process as planning is key for a good film and an effective thriller.  In lessons previous to this we learnt about camera shots so when it came to filming the following lesson we were pretty prepared, and because of our story board we knew exactly what we wanted to do, we had a clear impression of what we wanted before we started shooting. We had a lesson in which the previous year talked to us giving us their advice we took this advice and they told us that the edit is the most important and is the most time consuming. Another good piece of advice that the year 13 gave us is to film too much to allow for bad footage to be cut in the edit. Filming was quite a brief period as after only one lesson we had enough footage for our prelim, too much. However due to our inexperience after that lesson we thought we would need more footage however when we wanted to film again we had a few continuity errors for example we could not get the same class again and one of our team members wore the wrong clothes so these mistakes lead to us not being able to film anything at all on that day but luckily as I said we had enough footage for our prelim which had to be between 30 seconds and a minute.