Task One: Sources of information
The pre-production documentation was very useful to me and my group prepared and organised with the production of our advertisement.
Storyboard- It would take up to three hours to organize the storyboard, which will help us plan out our advert so everyone will know what their job is to do to produce our advert. During the time that we are planning we will sketch up some scenes that would contain different scenarios and we would write down different camera shots for each scene so that we will already know what the shoots are going to be about when we start recording. This gives us the advantage of saving time of the day of the pre-production of our advert because everyone will know what to do instead of planning the camera shots when trying to record, which will waste valuable recording time.
Shooting schedule- we will need to aware of the shooting time schedule for our advert and the best suitable time for everyone to film our advert. We filmed one of our scenes outside, so we had to make we had good suitable weather conditions for us film safely. And we need make that our location is suitable for us to film and not be disturbed by others so that we can concentrate in recording our advert and for us not disturbing others.
The risk assessment- This is very important for us to know that we are working in a safe environment where can not be hurt or damage our filming equipment. In filming anything can happen, so will need to check up all the possible hazards then can have threat in us working on our advertisement such as: water which can damage the equipment or we can slip and hurt ourselves. The risk assessment prevented us with these types of problems by being aware of surroundings.
The budget- Everyone knows to produce an advert we will need the use of money to pay for things needed to create and advert like our equipment, costumes and props, crews and members. So before we start on doing the film work we would research the equipment that we can be able to afford such as: camera, tripod and props. By doing this it help us keep track on how much money that we are spending and keeping aware that we do not over spend our money by being sensible with the money.
Contingency plan- This is extremely important to know as an advertiser, you will always need to have a plan B because they could always be possible ways of things stopping you from doing you advert. The could be the location, time or the weather conditions and these type of problems can make it very difficult the produce your advert. And you need to make that your advert is suitable for viewers to watch. So it always good to have more than one option in creating your advert because it is very common that advertisers change their minds in their ideas in what they want their advert to include init because they is always room for improvement so that your advert is good quality. This helps us as a group to share our ideas and develop new ideas.
Props and costumes- In our advert it has one prop which is the iPhone 5s to show that the advert is for sure about the iPhone 5s. For our costumes our group would wear different cloths for different scenes and the type of cloths that we would were is smart clothing. This will show that we are in different places and different times of the day for the different scenes that we do.
The call sheet- This help us be organised and to work as a group to get the job done fast. Everyone in the group would have a task of their own to do in making this advert. For example someone would be charge of the camera, their responsibility would be to record the scene, take care of the camera as we travel to different locations off the school site. And the rest of the group would have other tasks to do like acting, directing and giving assistance to production.
Contact details- In order for us to keep in contact with each other in the group, we will need to give each other accesses of ways of socializing such as emails or phone numbers. This will help us because it is helpful in knowing where everyone to know what location we can work at or if it an emergency we can contact each other such if a one of us is not feeling well we can let our group members know that we are not coming instead of wasting in trying to know we one of us is. We can also share ideas through socializing.
In my opinion the most important pre-production documentation is contingency plan because i feel that a lot of people struggle to think of another idea than their first idea, they don't think of a plan b, the disadvantages of your first idea might not all come to plan so it is always important to have a back up plan rather than just one idea. We will need more ideas more because they will always be a limited amount of time that we will need. The least important is the risk assessment because these sorts of things rarely happen and i don't remember on someone getting seriously injured by tripping of wire or our equipment getting because we we would obviously be very responsible in taking care of our equipment which we paid a lot of money for (school money). Finally the pre-production that i think should be improved is the storyboard. I don't feel the storyboard is going to be our exact idea of making our idea for the advert and we have rare based any of our outcomes on the exact plan from storyboards.
