Post 8: Pre-production Documentations

Risk Assessment:

 

Storyboard:

Pre-production Report:

We have come up with a idea to a target a audience of young adult males, we have chosen the genre thriller as this would be the most appropriate for our group. Before we started acting we first of all had to draft up a script, we did this plenty of times as we needed to engage with the viewers and have a strong, thrilling script to make the film more dramatic and to have a solid conclusion. We have encountered a problem and that is because our group has four young members in the cast so we will be younger then the cast presented in the script, we will do our best to avoid this by using props such as clothing, style and facility. We can adjust the quality of the actors used by the appearance of the lighting and makeup used to an extent. We as a group will try our best to solve this problem bu using cast that look older then they actually are, we will also manipulate there appearance by using props and makeup to effect there appearance.

Another thing that we struggled with whilst during out preproduction is that a lot shots are needed to complete the film. By using lots of shots this benefited us very much as if we had made any mistakes then the other angles used for the same shot would have been used. If the shots used were not appropriate for our film then this would also have also benefited us, by having a selection of shots and angles it makes it easier to decide what shot it going to be used, rather then having one angle and one shot of a clip that may not have been up to standard with the film. We have listed our shots in the shot lost and also illustrated them as well in the storyboard, we have done this so we can refer to the shot list whilst filming rather then planning everything on the spot.

MAIN Post 4 - Group Meeting

The group I was meant to be with did not have enough people and various members of our group dropped out off the course. There fore I joined another group as quickly as possible to catch up with all the work they had produced.

When I joined the group I had missed a lot of work that they had done so I needed to catch up and get filled in with what the Plot of the film where the film was based. We sat around a table of four and we discussed the plot of the film together, we all agreed with some points and all equally made decisions. When I joined the group we all come up with a genre of the film that we wanted to choose, we all agreed with the chosen genre and gave some great idea's towards what was going to be happening. We decided that a thriller featuring a MI6 agent would be the most appropriate for our group, we all agreed with the idea of this and did not exclude any opinions from members of the group.

After the genre of our film was chosen we then moved on to the plot of the film, our group gathered around a table and then started discussing what our film was going to be based on. Many idea's come up but we had to stick to our chosen genre that was 'thriller', we come up with many idea's that did not relate to the genre so we had to make it suit the pacific genre chosen. We started plotting the film by giving a few idea's each of what we thought would be a good idea to suit us and our genre. Some of the idea's that were said by our group members were un-realistic so we had to stick to a certain standard of film that did not involve any special effect e.g explosives, ghosts or effects that would be used by professional film industries. We wrote the plot of the film down on the computer and saved our work, we come up with the cast of the film, where the film was going to be based and what the film was going to be based on. A memeber in our rgoup named John thought that it would be a great idea to base the film on a MI6 agent, all of our membesrs in our group agreed with John and the plot started from there. We then got idea's from other thriller based films and got a idea of what was going to be needed to complete our film. We stuck to a simple structure then noted down where the films was going to be based, what would be needed for our film and the story line for our film.