The Pre-Production Process

The Pre-Production Process

The types of moving image production (media forms):

The type of production that we produced was a 90-second short film for Depict, in our group we come up with this idea the girl hides this necklace in the girl’s bag next to her. Unfortanly for the girl that receives the necklace is given more than just the necklace she is given an evil spirit with it.  So the type of moving image production for are group was a horror and scary short film. The way we distributed our film was through YouTube, there are many of other ways you can distribute a film through the professional industry. Professional films could be distributed through the box office and from this; there can be a large profit. Some production company's release films straight to DVD; they can then avoid the theatrical window and save money on promoting the film.  The types of moving image products are films, TV shows these can be found on TV channels or in websites.

The finance and sources of funding for moving image:

 Films normally have a budget, especially big films with lots of cast and crew. Most film have to pay for the equipment, the actors, customs etc. The people who create films will need to get funding from somewhere but where would they get founding from well so film makes get founding from websites were they are donated money towards the film websites such as Kick starter. Those people who had helped by investing in the production will normally ask for a small amount/percentage of the profit made from the film.

The requirements for any production:

 The money that is given for the film will/ would be spent on things like  equipment but also things that need to be paid for such as Video cameras, special effects, props and costumes, lighting, sounds, music etc. for our depict film we didn’t have any cost involved,  as it was all filmed and acted out by our group but also we used/ made our own props.

Personnel:

In a low budget short, you would not have many people, as you wouldn’t be able to afford to pay for everything so you would have people paying more than one part in the film, as you would have someone doing the hair, make-up and costumes. Then you would have someone doing the storyboard but also editing the film.

Time:

Most film productions have deadlines that they have to meet; these deadlines are given so that the film can be distributed on time. In addition, if these deadlines are not meet then people can lose their job but also there is a chance that money could be lost. Unfortanly in our group we didn’t meet the deadline due to people messing around and not working well as a team but we finally got the film done and completed.

Equipment/Facilities:

In most films or moving image productions the Equipment and props are rented or made especially for the film/ moving image. In our depicted product, we managed to get everything needed for the film from the college and the props were borrowed from friends in the classroom.  

Locations:

In most films/ moving image productions their needs to be location recess are used to scout out a place to film, they can eliminate any danger when you are filming. The location releases give you permission to film in that area and it covers the landowners for any damages. We chose to film in East Norfolk Sixth Form College as it were we all go but also as it, meant we didn’t have to travel to any places and waste time.

Legal issues:

When you film in areas where many people have access too, you have many legal issues to consider. You could be filming an action scene where you have to use a gun, even if it is fake, you would have to alert the police and the people in the surrounding areas to what is going on. That is where the location recess and release forms come in. however; Copyright is also a big part of the legal issues, as you need permission to use certain music, products etc. You can pay for the rights to music so you can then use it in your production. For our production, we used a song, which was copyright free.

Trade unions and trade associations:

A trade union is a group of workers who form together to achieve the same common goal. This goal is normally something along the lines of helping to protect the integrity of a trade or helping to improve safety standards. Some examples of trade unions are:

• ·          Artists' Union England
• ·          National Society for Education in Art & Design
• ·          Employees United
• ·          FDA
• ·          Writers Guild of Great Britain

Minor Release for The Necklace

Adult Talent Release for The Necklace

CATCH OF THE DAY | DepicT! Highlights | Watershed

Catch of the Day

I find this video funny because I am a fisherman and know how
easy it is to get tangled up. I also like it because you have the split screen
where the man pulls the woman from underneath him. This links to the olden days
when people used to think that the world was flat and if you travelled too far
you would reach the end of the earth and you would fall off the edge. It has a
woman fishing and this is a surprise but challenges sexism because people
assume fishing is for men and you don’t see many women fishing.

This is ironic because the title is also a pun. ‘Catch of the
Day’: the man catches the woman which is more than he bargained for. At the
very end, it leaves the viewer wondering about the dog but we get a happy
ending when we see the dog is safely in the boat.

Magic Unicorn

The main character tries to sell a stolen bike to a stranger. Another character walks past with a unicorn which can shoot rainbows out of its horn. The first seller then tries to big his bike up by saying, for example, it has twin engines. The boy with the unicorn increases his selling pitch claiming his unicorn can fly. He ends up walking away with the unicorn and the potential buyer also walks away without buying the unicorn or the bike.

This was really funny because it reminded of myself because when I try to sell a bike I exaggerate so much to get a lot of money for it. Although it has a unicorn in it is true to life. None of the characters show amazement at seeing a unicorn. They keep very straight, almost bored, faces.

It only has 3 characters, is set in an alleyway, off an ordinary street. The unicorn is just a white horse with a horn stuck on so it would be quite easy to make.

What made this short successful was the original but believable idea. It worked being short because it was all about the conversation – there was no plot needed as to what had happened before or afterwards.

Depict - First submission feedback

The Necklace

My Evaluation on The Necklace Our task was to create a 90 second short film to be entered in the depict website. In our group there were 4 of us. We came up with an idea that a girl finds a necklace planted in her bag. From this necklace she finds it holds a weird and strange things happen to her. My roles in this were to film the video but also do some editing on Adobe Premiere Po CC 2014 and worked on the story board. I feel that my roles were great but there were some problems in the group that I worked with and that is no one really put any effort into the task we had. But most of the time we worked well as a group and finally finished in the time frame we had. I feel that in my group we had a good interesting story line/plot as it works very well and also was a great idea as it’s not like anything I’ve seen before. However, in my group I was not happy with some of the shots in the filming as they do not flow the way they should, there are jumps from scene to scene. To improve this, we could have faded scenes in or put a text on the screen saying, for example, ‘Five minutes later…’ But also there were some continuity errors: the main character wore mostly the same outfit but in the last 2 shots she was wearing something different. To make sure this doesn’t happen again, the actor could have made a note of what she was wearing on Day 1 (e.g. photo on phone). In our group there were some big issues which were people not turning up to the class, planning and making decisions together and not having the props needed. This meant we had to keep redoing things and the filming took 4 lessons instead of 2 lessons. This meant we were then behind with follow-up work. We also had technical difficulties with the camera and computer but also the uploading of the video. On the other hand, the main actor played her role well because she took the assignment seriously and focused on getting the task completed in time. Also, the camera was positioned effectively for most of the shots. We tried several options to make sure it was put in the right place and because of this I feel it worked very well and the short film couldn’t have gone any better. In our short film we had a range of props which made the story more understandable and fun to watch and due to this I am extremely happy with how the short film has turned out.

The Necklace

Depict Research Webbed

Webbed

I like this depict video because it funny how it has very carefully
been filmed and the way it had been filmed is great because they have used a
point of view shot for the kid fires webs from his hand. As well as it being a
little kid try to be like his hero spider-man he tries to firer webs at things
in the shop. But is unsuccessful so the kid walks around the corner and finds a
man looking at food and drinks on the shave so the kid shots imagery webs at
the man; who plays along with the kid and shows the little kid he’s super-man.  This is a great 90 second film because of the
idea the people have used and where it was filmed was a fantastic location
which is inside a small super-market.