planning & pre production: time management

PLANNING & PRE-PRODUCTION

An introduction

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What is pre-production Is the planning phase of any project. It is

where we think about what we need to do, how we will do it, who will do it and when it needs to be done by..

Why do we need to conduct planning for a video production?

Why do we need to conduct planning for a video production?

Video production is a multi-faceted operation

That is, there are many different things we need to pull together, at a certain time and in a certain place, to make a production happen

What kind of things do we need to plan? What we’re filming When we’re filming Where we’re filming Who’s in it Etc….

In pairs or three’s…Brainstorm a;; the different things you would need to organise if you were filming a music video for Dizzee Rascal….

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Whole class feedbackWhat different things did you plan for Dizzee Rascals music video?

What do we need to plan for?Lets look at some of the planning we might need to do for a production.

What do we need to plan for?

IDEAS

EQUIPMENT

TIME

LOCATIONCAST & CREW

In your pairs Look through the production checklist

and talk about which of the activities you would need to do for Dizzee Rascals music video

Tick off the ones you think you’d need to complete for the video

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Now we need to think about what order they’d need to be done in.

Production milestonesOne way of helping to set things in the right order is to decide on your milestones.

This is where you list the jobs in the order you think they need to be done.

For example, which would you need to do 1st? Come up with an idea for your music video? Hire actors and dancers?

Production milestonesBy listing the tasks in the order they need to be complete we can plan to get things done in the right order, and we won’t fall behind with our filming.

We can record this on a production milestones document.

In your pairs List all the different tasks you would

need to complete to successfully plan Dizzee’s music video on the production milestones sheet.

Make sure you put them in the right order.

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Feedback

Once we know our milestones We can start to plan out what we will do

on a week-by-week or day-by-day basis using a production schedule.

Production schedule We need to know the following to fill in our schedule:

Start date: when can we start planning it?

Deadline: when does the video have to be complete?

Milestones: what do we need to get done in the time that gives us?

In pairsImagine you have six weeks before the final edit of the video needs to be complete.

Fill in the production schedule, dividing up the milestones on a week by week basis. Don’t forget that you would need to film & edit in that timeframe.

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Feedback

Working alone Log onto Moodle, click on planning &

research

Working alone Navigate to week 1 in the moodle

course. You will be able to find the presentation and resources here.

Fill in the quiz on ‘managing time’.

This will help you later when you come to write your reports.