Making a Video

In class we watched a video made by some Australian production team. The video gave us some useful tips and advice on how to control our filming and production schedule.

It started off by telling us the different roles that are involved when producing a film:

- Executive producer: This person will create the filming schedule/timeline, control the budget and decide who fills what rolls.

- Writer: This person will take all the idea that were discussed and write a script for the production

- Director: This person is in charge of all the movement

- Production manager: This person keeps track of the production and makes sure everything is on track to stay in budget/in the deadline

- Storyboard Artist: This person draws and plans the shots in a cartoon strip style

- Camera operator: This person controls the camera and uses the storyboard as the outline and guide of what to film (this can sometime be the same person as the lighting director)

- Lighting Director: This person is in charge of the lighting on set when they start the filming process

- Sound Technician: This person will add sound to the production at the editing stage and may try and record different sounds on set to add at a later stage

- Talent: The talent will be the actors; these will either be auditioned or asked to partake by the executive producer

- Editor: This person will make sure the continuity etc is correct and produce the finished product.

 

They then gave us an outline of the three stages of creating a production.

 

Pre-Production

Scripting

Scene breakdown

Storyboard

Shot list

Casting

Location

Equipment

Catering

Hire of venue

Letting others (around the area) know you're filming

 

Shot list and shooting schedule:

Where

Time needed

Different camera angles

When

How long

 

Plan Ahead, Be Prepared!!

 

Production - The doing stage

Shooting the project

Time management (crucial)

Quality control (image, sound, performance)

Potential conflict between producers (limitations and directors creativity)

 

Post-Production -The finishing stage

Editing

-Rough-cute/off-line and final/on-line

Sound technician balances sounds

All elements combined during editing

Sound mix