Pre production Report

For our final task, we had to make an opening sequence for our own film. As a group we decided that we wanted a film that had the genre of crime. We then started to discuss ideas about what we wanted our film to be about by doing this we slowly started to make a plot for our opening sequence. Once we had figured out what we was doing in our opening sequence we then had to decide on the whole plot. This then lead onto making a script for our film. We didn't have much of a script for our opening sequence because we didn't want to give to much away.

We then had to make our treatment. This made us think about what visuals and audio's we were going to include in our opening sequence. For our audio part in the treatment we had to think about diegetic and non-diegetic sound.

For our shot list we had to make a table which included every shot. For every shot we had to say what type of shot it was (long close-up etc), what was happening in the shot and the camera movement.

We then did our storyboard. We used our shot list to draw each picture and we had to make sure each picture was the right shot size. We also used the shot list to write the technical aspects in the box next to the drawings. We had to ensure that for each shot the technical box matched the drawing.

Next we had to do a location reece came after this once we had decided on were we was going to film our opening sequence. We had to take pictures of the room so that we got a feel of what props we needed, we had some trouble with taking the pictures but managed to get them to slot together to make a 360 degree view of the room.

Our prop list then followed once we had seen the room the list became easy, we had to make it look like a real flat.

Overall I think our preproduction tasks went well. We worked well as a team to make sure that everything got done. Although we did come across a few problems we overcame these and produced some good work that will help us when we are filming.