Planning Task List

This week commencing 17th November is planning week.

In  your lap charts you have a series of tasks that need to be completed by your group and/or delegated to a member in your group. Make sure these are uploaded onto your blog. Create a calendar of frees, evenings and weekends you are all free to film.

1) Initial film idea to your group
2) Photograph/Video evidence of group planning
3) Moodboard of initial ideas including inspirational shots and titles from real film
4) Synopsis planning - this is when you take each of your ideas for the film opening and break them down with what you need in terms of location, props, actors etc.
5) Evidence of how planned opening is going to fit with codes and conventions of genre.
6) storyboard - drawn, filmed, edited and voiceover added (see below)
7) titles research
8) group pitch
9) class feedback and peer assessment on pitch and amendments planned
10) timeline of titles with rough shots, locations and plannned timings
11) script
12) location and recce shots
13) shot list
14) rpt sorry! so I've replaced this with blog reflection (see blog link)
15) fonts for titles research
16) props research and list
17) shooting schedules (see template )
18) risk assessment forms
19) music/sound research ideas/foley re-recordings
20) Changes made along the way including re-shoots, edit changes, sound difficulties, slight changes in script.
21) Production Diary - dates and individual responsibilities and tasks
22) Marketing campaign - look at a film that influences yours and follow prezi below in terms of research then design a poster, and discuss how you would market your film with websites, social media etc
23) Audience research - who are you targeting, who is most likely to see your film? Who is your primary and secondary audience?
24) Institution - information on your film production company and who will produce and distribute your film...
25) Representation - who, what and where are being represented in your film opening? What does it say about them?





https://prezi.com/gppkd8tgbo8k/shaun-of-the-dead-target-audience-research/#share_embed

Research and Planning

You must blog everything - all ideas, inspirations. You must never stop (until Jan) researching opening sequences for your particular genre and uploading them. Your blog is the remaining 40 marks so absolutely crucial. Very importantly you must set up a whatsapp or facebook group so that you're constantly in communication which each other and know where everyone is and what they're responsible for. Also, from now on every member of the group must have a target/task/objective that they are completing for the opening. So if the film pitch is still not up to scratch, who's doing which part of it.

We've given you a lot of advice on what to avoid. Keeping it simple is most everyone's hardest challenge, pace and enigma crucial. Beautiful shots that establish character, genre and setting. In those shots extremely well thought out mise en scene. It all has to be really well planned and a group effort. Also, keep in mind that there will be bits that don't work and may need to be re-shot. Have a plan B schedule.


When we've greenlit your ideas and you're good to go Mr Amato and I can start sending you links to anything which may be useful.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sAWv9CkLW_4 This got 52



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TzefKbMKMF0 This got 56


So film pitch, titles tasks, planning ideas, inspirations, shooting schedules, risk assessments, moodboards, props and costumes list, music research, storyboarding this week and next (list in LAP chart)


Filming and Editing - following two weeks - you must find time you can all work together. Alongside this will be your film posters and how you will market the film etc