1. What does it mean? What do you need to do for your project?
Pre-production
What does it mean?
What do you need to do for your project?

2. You will be able to: Identify the importance of pre-production
Identify job roles within pre-production
Demonstrate an understanding of pre-production paperwork
Complete pre-production paperwork for your production

3. Pre-production
This is the first phase of production and the most important.
Pre-production helps you and the crew to know exactly what you want.
It works as a guide so you can achieve exactly what you want.
“I know what I want and I don’t need it”
YES YOU DO!
This process is the most critical and includes an array of planning documents.
Before we move onto the planning documents, I would like you to do the following task.

4. Task – pre-production
I would like you to research and investigate the process of pre-production.
Find out the following:
What does pre-production mean?
Why is it important?
What is completed during pre-production?
What job roles are needed during this process?
With the information you have gathered, I would like you to create a information poster.
BE CREATIVE WITH IT!

5. SHOOTING SCRIPT
This is here to help you complete your production process.
The shooting script acts as a guide for you
This is not a screenplay and not a full script.
In the industry this is created from the screenplay and gives the crew a quick action plan
The shooting script gives you three things, a shot order, what the camera is doing and the location.
Every time the location, or the camera changes, you need to put in a new scene.

6. Shooting script Media Shooting Script Name: Group: Project: Shot No.
Description of Shot:
Location:
In this box you need to give the location of where you are going to film, this needs to be precise.
In this box you need to describe what visually happens in the shot and what the camera is doing. You need to include camera terminology. Wide shot, close up, etc.
In this box you need to give the shot a number. So, number 1, 2, 3 etc
YOU CAN DOWNLOAD THE SHOOTING SCRIPT HERE

7. The storyboard
Let’s have a look at how a story board is used and what do you need to do.

8. storyboard
SHOT NUMBER
SHOT TYPE
DIALOGUE
ACTION
In this box, you need to put a visual representation of what you want to see. You can hand draw it, or use images from the internet.
If there are lyrics, what does it say at this point.
What is the action from your shooting script?

9. Location recce
By knowing more about your location, this will help when it comes to filming there.
It is there for you to identify issues and how you could solve them.
It is always good practice to visit the site before filming and gather as much information as you can.

10. PREPARED BY
DATE OF FORM COMPLETION
LOCATION DETAILS
LOCATION
TRAVEL NEEDED
PICTURE OF LOCATION
WHAT IS BEING FILMED ON LOCATION?
DATE OF FILMING
ISSUES
SOLUTIONS
EMERGANCY CONTACT
COLLEGE CONTACT
EMERGANCY SERVICES
DIRECTOR
PERSONS NEEDED AT LOCATION

11. RISK ASSESSMENT This is an important part of pre-production.
This ensures that you and your team are safe
This will make sure that your production runs smoothly
The risk assessment sheet can change from company to company, but the premise remains the same.