Week 12: Deadline continued

FINISHED!!!
I've successfully been able to complete both the Treatment document, and my overall evaluation before the deadline. I've handed in all my group work and individual work to my pre-production teacher, I can't really say anything about my team members, because I don't know if they handed in their individual work, and I didn't check because I am not their babysitter, and they have to do work their work themselves. So all I can do now is wait until I get feedback from my pre-production teacher, to improve my grade that I get.

Week 12: Deadline

Wow it's really the deadline already?
It doesn't matter anyway, because all I've got to do today is the overall Evaluation (Task 3) and the Treatment document, and then I'm finished. I'm still doing the Treatment document, because I to wait for the Production Schedule sheet, and the Shot List to be given to me, by my team members, so I can finish the Treatment off.

Codes of Practice

ASA (Advertisement Standing Authority)

The ASA is the UK’s independent watchdog committed to maintaining high standards in advertising for the benefit of consumers, advertisers and society at large.

BBFC (British Board of Film Classification)

A highly expert and experienced regulator of the moving image (especially film, video/DVD and video games), and also a service provider for new and developing media.

ICSTIS (Independent Committee for Supervision of Students of Telephone Information Services)

The ICSTIS Code sets out rules on content, operation and promotion of premium rate services.

OFCOM (Office of Communication)

OFCOM is the communications regulator. They regulate the TV and radio sectors, fixed line telecoms and mobiles, plus the airwaves over which wireless devices operate.

PCC (Press Complaints Commission)

The PCC is an independent self-regulatory body which deals with complaints about
the editorial content of newspapers and magazines (and their websites). They keep
industry standards high by training journalists and editors, and work pro-actively
behind the scenes to prevent harassment and media intrusion. They can also provide
pre-publication advice to journalists and the public.

Personnel

During pre-production the following staff are needed:

Prop manager – the employee who is in charge of the props. The prop manager does all the work the needs props, for example the prop manager is in charge of transporting the props, buying the props, making the props, marketing the props, insuring the props, and keeping the props safe.

Cameraman – the employee who is in charge of the recordings. The cameraman records footage, and he checks the working environment to find the best quality for recording.

Scheduler – the employee who is in charge of timing. The scheduler organises what everybody is doing and when everything is used, to keep disaster from happening.

Actors – the employees who are recorded by the cameraman for live footage. Actors are optional is pre-production, because sometimes they are not needed, for example if the cameraman needs to record animals, actors are not needed in this situation.

Materials and Costs

Cameras:

Sony DSR-PD150

The PD-150 offers both mini-DV and DVCAM recording, dual XLR audio inputs with a mono short shotgun microphone, black and white viewfinder, a settable time code, a sharpness and colour saturation level. It was used by director David Lynch to film Inland Empire. Estimating price would be about £2350 for a brand spanking new one, or you can get it second-hand for about £1500, but to save money, you can buy one on eBay for £568.

Sony HVR-Z5

The first true successor to the HDR-FX1 and the HVR-Z1, The HVR-Z5 uses a Exmor 1/3" 3CMOS design, and is bundled with a CF card recorder. Estimating price would be about £4000 for a brand spanking new one, or you can get it second-hand for about £3800 but to save money, you can buy one on eBay for £3600.

Sound

Edirol R-4

Portable audio recording with superb sound quality. In-built 40GB hard disk drive for extended recording. Record up to four channels at once. Edit waveforms on the recorder itself. All this plus a compact size and light weight that assure outstanding mobility in the field. . Estimating price would be about £1500 for a brand spanking new one, or you can get it second-hand for about £1000 but to save money, you can buy one on eBay for £800.

Lighting & Accessories

Vinten Pro 5

This new system features a Pro-5Plus fluid head with side load for rapid camera attachment, adjustment and removal, as well as a Vinten Pozi-Loc tripod and spreader for class-leading rigidity and stability. Edit waveforms on the recorder itself. All this plus a compact size and light weight that assure outstanding mobility in the field. . Estimating price would be about £500 for a brand spanking new one, or you can get it second-hand for about £400 but to save money, you can buy one on eBay for £150.

Production Time

A production schedule can vary widely in complexity. For a small presentation, it may be just a series of checkpoints for accomplishing certain tasks during the preceding week. For a three-day conference involving many speakers, it can be like a battle plan for the production team, with overlapping deadlines and goals spanning several weeks before the final meeting.

A plain calendar page is the ideal tool for creating a production schedule. Mark sections for each of the tasks discussed in the following pages. In many cases, these sections will overlap, especially if the presentation will include several speakers. Mark deadlines (such as due dates for final script or imaging) in red to make them stand out.

Estimating production time is a skill which comes with practice, but you can protect yourself from serious scheduling problems by keeping these few things in mind:

• Be practical; set goals that are achievable.
• Always assume any task will take longer than planned.
• Treat all deadlines seriously; don't procrastinate

Example of production time sheet:

Secondary Research

Secondary research is the analysis, interpretation, and evaluation of someone else’s primary source of work. Secondary research can consist of books, journals, and websites, which you can reference from; photos, which you can interpret from and use for your idea generation, even if you use them in your final product or not; audio material, which can consist of audio recorded interviews, presentations, and conferences; interviews, that do not include yourself, and you can use transcripts, audio, and feedback from the interviews that you are researching from; and published statistics, where you can find out how many people prefer certain styles of trailers and videos over others.
For my secondary research, I used some shots from a storyboard design that was given to us by Craig Downey; however I only used a few. This rest of the shots in the storyboard are my own. Also I used sources from the internet to give myself ideas for my storyboard, however I didn’t really use the ideas that I found, because they didn’t fit in well with my storyboard. I also used images from the internet for my digital moodboard, mainly images of BF109e and HO229 planes, and World War II warships, because they were relevant to the theme of my game trailer.

Primary Research

Primary research is research that you have conjured up with yourself. Primary research consists of interviews, which can either be face to face, via telephone, or via email; observations, which is basically observing other people make their videos; questionnaires, which is a great for acknowledging what you’re audience want is a trailer; surveys, which is very similar to questionnaires, however surveys are distributed through emails, the internet, or even by telephone, whereas questionnaires are distributed by paper, for example paper, magazines, or newspapers; focus groups, which are groups that focus on certain sections, for example the idea generation; audience panels, which are meetings with your audience and finding out personally, what they want in a game trailer; and self-generated research, which can consist of your own videos, audio, and photographs, for example our photographs and sketches of and from Conwy Castle.

For my primary research, my team went to Conwy Castle to do some location sketches and they took some photographs of the location and Conwy Castle itself. Unfortunally I couldn't attend to the Conwy Castle, because I was on attending business meeting in Orlando Florida, at Space Kennedy Centre, where I was undertaking research of NASA equipment, for another assignment. 

Week 9, 10, and 11

During week 9, 10 and 11, I undertook more research, but on pre-production itself, and not images for my individual digital moodboard. My team members, were still working on the group work. They could do their research on pre-production themselves, because they have to do that work themselves.

My research consisted of primary and secondary research; production time; facilities and costs; personnel and costs; copyright; and Codes of Practice.

I will post my research on separate blogs.

Week 8

During week 8, I shared out the rest of the group work need to be done, for this assignment.

Idea Generation – Nathan 

Individual Digital Moodboard – All

Meeting Record Sheet – Luke

Treatment - Nathan

Production Schedules – Sean

Storyboards – Nathan 

Shot list – Luke

Risk Assessment - Sam

Diagram of Shooting Location – Sean

Legal Documentation – Sam

Copyright Evidence – Luke

Shooting Schedule – Sam

Individual Blog - All


I had already completed the Idea Generation, and the Storyboard by now, so all I had left to do was the Treatment document, which is the evalauation document of the group work (Task 2).

Week 7

During week 7, I started on the Idea Generation, which is another document of the pre-production forms. The Idea Generation consists of an idea overview and reasons for using or rejecting the idea, for each individual scene, of my storyboard.

Week 6

During week 6, I started on the pre-production forms. I started with the Storyboard. I used some shots that were show to me by Craig Downey, but most of the shots are my original ideas. It took me a five days to complete my Storyboard for my team. Overall, there are five scene in my storyboard, consisting of 34 shots.

Week 5

During week 5, I started on my digital moodboard. I imported all my images that I found on the internet into my digital moodboard, and I added music and animation to the moodboard.

Week 4

During Week 4, I was researching images of World War II warships, as shown below.

I was researching images of World War II warships, because it is relevant to my Pre-production assignment, because I have gathered copyright free images of World War II warships for my digital moodboard, which is part of my Pre-production assignment.

Week 3

During Week 3, I was researching concpet images of plane dogfights of at least 1 BF109E plane, as shown below.

 

Plane dogfight

I was researching concept images of plane dogfights, because it is relevant to my Pre-production assignment, because I have gathered copyright free images of plane dogfights for my digital moodboard, which is part of my Pre-production assignment.

Week 2

During Week 2, I was researching images of the plane model HO229, as shown below.

HO229

I was researching images of this model of plane, because it is relevant to my Pre-production assignment, because I have gathered copyright free images of the HO229 for my digital moodboard, which is part of my Pre-production assignment.

Week 1

During Week 1, I was researching images of the BF109E, as shown below.

BF109E

I was researching images of this model of plane, because it is relevant to my Pre-production assignment, because I have gathered copyright free images of the BF109E for my digital moodboard, which is part of my Pre-production assignment.

Nathan's Blog

I am going to use this site, to document my pre-production work.