Final Discussion Of The Effectiveness Of The Pre-Production Process

The pre production process has been very successful in developing our initial thriller idea into an actual film sequence that is to be made. The key aspects that have helped us develop are doing necessary research, storyboarding the step by step narrative, creating the shooting schedule, lists of props, costume, cast and location. Having made each of these documents it will hopefully help us as a group to be both efficient and effective on the day of shooting and help it to run smoothly.

In the pre production progression I have really contributed to the groups activities. I have made and helped to make the shooting schedule, cast list, costume list, finding locations, cast and crew call sheets, group roles, creation of folder (collection of documents and overall editing and tidying of all sections), creating the company logo & film poster. I feel that my specific skills lie in the delegation of jobs and the organisation of the group; this is why I feel that I have been a good group producer and overseer of the whole production file. I feel that I have made the visual design of the production file ergonomically pleasing.

I have learnt so much of the past few weeks throughout the planning stages, both filmically and technically. Before we started I would never have known what and how to do any of the stages that I mentioned in the first paragraph, for example I never knew the correct story boarding method until now.

I feel that the day of the shoot is going to go very well as we have planned every aspect of the day and each cast and crew member has received a call sheet expressing what to do, where to do it and when it should be done. Although what we still have to achieve that needs further development and planning before our shooting date is the floor and lighting plans which we haven’t made due to getting a location at a rather late stage. Apart from that we are all set for the shoot day and I really feel and hope that it all goes well; we will achieve this by sticking closely to our plans made for the day.