1. Research Techniques
For Creative Media
Industries
By Joshua Stanley
Thursday, 28 June 2012
2. Budget
A 'Budget' is a list of everything you will
need, including the price of everything that
you need during the production so you
know exactly how much is will cost so you
you know how much you need before you
can start to make your product.
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3. Location Recce
In the 'Location recce sheet' you draw a rough
sketch of the filming location site, names of the
people that grant access to the location, and the
name of the location contacts, along with a list of
possible health and safety risk worth noting, last
but not least a list of potential filming problems
that you could encounter on the shooting date,
such as the weather. Listing these things is useful as
if they do happen your already expecting it and
there for it can be avoided or resolved, and also by
naming the people that would grant you access to
the location later is helpful if you can't gain access
or if you forgot who the location contact was.
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4. Overhead Diagrams
In an 'Overhead diagram', you point out all the
places you and your crew or where specific
people will be during the production so you and
your crew all know where you should be, almost
like a rough sketch of the location.
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5. Location Release &
Content Agreement
By asking the people in your production or owners
of the location you may be using to sign a 'Location
release & content agreement (legal clearance) saying
they have acknowledgement and allow that they or
there location will be in the final product, otherwise
they could demand that it is removed and they
could potentially take you or your company to
court.
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6. Risk Assessment
The 'Risk assessment' is used for noting all of the
possible hazards that could happen during your
production at your listed location and the level of
the risk to help you do your best to avoid any of
the possible hazards. Listing all of the possible
hazards and how they could most easily be solved
is useful as you can avoid them from happening
and such as 'Tripping on whirr on the set, stick
wires to the floor with hazard tape.
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7. Crew Equiptment
A 'Equipment & crew sheet' is a list of all the
equipment that you will or may need along side
with potential actors or crew you will be needing
to help film, edit or act when making the product;
also, a list of the transport requirements, when
traveling to and/ or from locations, and the post-
production requirements such as the music that
you may need too add on after editing, graphic,
sound effects, voice over narration, and found
footage or images. listing all of this is useful in the
long run, as you may need to rent or book out
along with the actors, crew, and transport that you
would need to hire before hand.
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8. Ghant Chart
a Gantt chart is for listing
all the day that you will and
wont be filming on. Gantt
charts are useful as it helps
you organise your time
more efficiently, it also stop
you spending too much
time on one thing as you
will be on a schedule.
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9. Contact Sheet
A call sheet should include contact information such as
phone numbers and/ or email addresses, a shooting
schedule, and the address of the shooting location. Call
sheets should be given to the crew and cast of the
production, call sheets are handy just incase you lose
someone from the cast or crew so they are easily
contacted.
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10. Storyboards
This is a story board, a story board should
contain almost all of the content that will be
in your production, it’s basically a step by
step process of what’s happening, in what
shot, lighting, sound, fx, screen action, and
camera movement. Story boards are very
useful when you actully start making your
production as it’s contains of your ideas and
plans step by step.
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11. Shooting Script
The shooting script is to inform the subjects of what
they should be doing, what's going on in the scene.
It also helps the cameramen so they know where
to stand, what they should be shooting and what
angle they should be shooting.
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12. Requirements
Requirements are so you remember all
the things you need to bring for the
production, this is essential as there
are usually many pieces of equipment
to remember and you won't be able to
shoot without all of the equipment.
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13. Footage Log
The footage log helps you to understand what shot
you should be trying to capture so you can make
your production the way you had planned to make
it look.
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14. Edit Division List
(EDL)
The edit decision list (EDL) is useful so you can figure
out how it can be edited in order to fit your
production, by having and EDL before hand, it make the
production a lot easier to edit, and therefore take less
time.
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