Production Log 5

This week, in my group we started the pre-production. This is includes the narrative, treatment, location reccies, production schedule, call sheet and the shooting script.

What have been the key issues for your pre-production this week?

Some of the key issues we had this week during pre-production was to makes decisions on the storyline, plot and narrative and then the other documents. We had to decide about the narrative and the treatment. For the narrative we wrote out everything that would happen in the film from start to finish. We did this so we would know what needs to actually be in the opening sequence instead of having most of the film in the opening sequence as has happened with past students work. We then did the treatment. The treatment was other information which is needed for the pre-production. The treatment includes information about the title, target audience, ttechnology, representation, nnarrative, conventions, style& iconography and institution. The location reccies is the location sets where the opening sequence of our film will be filmed at. For the production schedule we had to see what dates we would film and edit and which scenes. The problem with this was knowing when we would have access to certain location and if they would be available at that time and there was also the problem of having to make certain days for different characters for when they were available. We didn't have any problems with the first call sheet. Some of the decisions we made was about the final locations where to film: we had 4 finalised locations. The way we overcame the other issues was by finding out when the cast was free to film and when we could use what room. From this we planned when we could do what scenes.