Depict: pre production Essay

 

Digital Media Worksheet

Time

The time frame for our project was just over 2 months, 1 month to plan and another one for filming, in this time we planned out what we were going to do each day and tried our best to meet the requirements we set for everyday of filming. Most days we did this and got a good amount of filming done and had 2 weeks left to edit our film together after.

What happens when you do not meet deadlines in the professional media industry?

• The team and production falls behind and the time for filming gets shorter or the release date of a film gets extended which causes lots of complications and tension. Also if certain people don’t live up to expectations or don’t do as much work as expected their jobs can be in jeopardy, and their laziness can cause the failure of a whole production especially if the person with an important job falls behind.
• Luckily in our production everyone helped out and we didn’t fall to far behind and on days we fell behind we made up for in the following days
   

Did you meet deadlines set in class?

• We had roughly 3 weeks to film and 2 weeks to edit and we finished filming a little earlier than expected, however we did have to go back and film the last couple of scenes in the last week, but we still had enough time for editing, and meet all the deadlines.

 

 

Personnel

Crew

• Charlie Robinson (Director/ main camera operator)
• Owen Leach (Actor/ assistant editor)
• Luke Lanham (Head Editor/ boom operator)
• Aimee Woolnough (Actor/ Story boarder)

Talent

• Owen Leach (the protagonists dates)
• Aimee Woolnough (protagonist)

 

In our group Owen has experience with drama and I’ve acted in other productions in college before, with editing Luke has edited before and knows how the applications were editing on works. I also do art, so I was happy to do the storyboard, and each of us did a worksheet to help out.

 

Each day we helped set up the location that we filmed in and everyone helped get and put away equipment.

 

What is the makeup of a typical team for a moving image production

Low budget short

A television programmes

Hollywood feature film

 

Costs  

We obtained our equipment from the college supplies and what they have available which wasn’t to bad considering and we managed to make a good quality short out of what we were giving, for example 2 good quality cameras, tri-pods to make are shots straight and steady, boom mics for better quality sound, and small lighting devices which went on top of the cameras for more aesthetics and a orange glow.

 

These were free to rent from the college each day we filmed, and we returned all the equipment by the end of the day, so no fees were added on, and we filmed cost free.

 

Again, we didn’t have to pay for the props or costumes we used and most of them were given to us for the production and the stuff we did have to buy were taken out in the college’s funds.