What is Preproducton?
Movie – Shaun of the Dead (Comedy)
Synopsis: A man decides to turn his moribund life around by winning back his ex-girlfriend, reconciling his relationship with his mother, and dealing with an entire community that has returned from the dead to eat the living.
Productivity Journal
- It is the planning stage
- Writing the script
- Drawing the storyboards
- Making a Shot List
- Planning a shooting schedule
- This is the most important stage in any of the 3 stages of production. The reason is because this is the stage that everything is laid out and organized before they are ready to shoot.
- Without this stage, no one would know what they were doing and the films would take longer and cost more to shoot.
- A storyboard is a detailed drawing of the shot that is taking place in the scene. Once a script is completed, they will break each scene own into shots and visually and verbally describe what is going on.
- A synopsis is a summary of the movie, providing the reader with the plot of the film, the characters in the film and the genre of the film.
- Remember a synopsis is a summary of the film so you want to use this to draw the audience into watching your movie
Movie – Shaun of the Dead (Comedy)
Synopsis: A man decides to turn his moribund life around by winning back his ex-girlfriend, reconciling his relationship with his mother, and dealing with an entire community that has returned from the dead to eat the living.
Productivity Journal
- A productivity journal is a daily recording of what you accomplished, what day it was accomplished and what you plan on doing for the next day.
- It is an excellent tool used to keep track of your shooting to save your film from continuity errors.
Example of a Two Column Script:
Shot List
- A shot list is used to organize your script breaking it down into details by scene.
- Each scene is broken down into four sections; by the shot number, the action of the shot, the audio in the shot and the duration of the shot
- It is the filming stage
- It is the editing stage
- Organizing footage
- Putting the scenes in order
- Adding transitions
- Adding titles & credits