pre-production
Pre-production was possibly the most important stage of production, as its where our idea was created and then developed. We used hardware, software and the internet to help research and further improve our idea.
The mood board I made during pre-production.
ONLINE
I used Whatsapp in order to make a group chat with my group whereby we were able to discuss our initial idea and take on feedback given, this was vital as we were then able to further develop our idea, despite not being in a lesson together.
Whatsapp was also useful when choosing our location for teh shoot as we were able to exchange photos of potential location ideas.
YOUTUBE
YouTube was crucial to the development of our opening title sequence. Not only was I able to watch videos for research purposes, such as “how to make fake blood” or “how a girl can overpower a man”, I was also able to upload our test shoot as well as behind the scenes videos to YouTube to easily show them to the rest of my group and teachers. Additionally, YouTube allowed me to access movies similar to ours whereby I was able to analyse scenes and compare them to ours.
The search engine google was extremely helpful when I was conducting my own research, I was able to research and find images and facts that helped me to develop our idea as I was able to use websites such as IMDB to compare similar films to mine and predict what BBFC would rate our film. Google was also very important as I was able to work on google slides to create a mood board which i was then able to annotate, by creating a mood board I was able to visualise what I wanted our opening title sequence to look like.
AMAZON
We finally used amazon to compare and order props, amazon are especially good as they offer a next day delivery service meaning that if we forgot a crucial prop we were able to fix this issue very close to our shoot day. A key part of mise-en-scene we bought off amazon is fake blood, whereby we ordered cogulated blood as well as powder blood, meaning on the day we had a variation of bloods to apply to the actors. By ordering blood online as opposed to making it, it meant that it was less hassle prior to the shoot and there were no worries if it would look effective once applied.
HARDWARE AND SOFTWARE
software
I firstly used my iphone 13 Pro Max to communicate with group on Whatsapp, whereby we sent and received messages that helped us to develop our idea. We were further able to FaceTime and discuss our idea yet also take photos and videos of locations we could potentially use. I further used my phone to shoot the test shoot whereby I was abe to play around with the composition as well as practice the 180 degree rule as well as other skills we learnt during the camera workshops. During said workshops, I took notes on my phone as well as photos so that I was able to look back on them if I needed to.
hardware
During pre-production my laptop was crucial and helped me to research and develop our idea. First of al, I was able to research facts and topics to do with our sequence on google, and then write and publish blog posts surrounding my findings onto blogger. I chose to edit our sequence on my laptop as opposed to my phone as it was easier to sort and group the files, and the iMovie app on laptops has more features that I was able to use and play around with. Once the sequence was edited, I was then able to upload it onto YouTube from my laptop which was then easily sharable with my entire group. My laptop allowed me to access several apps which helped me to develop our idea and work efficiently individually and collaboratively, whereby we were able to make a shared time sheet on google docs, in order to make sure our shoot day ran smoothly and everyone knew what they were doing.
Our test shoot
