pre-production tools presentation
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Pre-Production Tools
By Connor Baker
Storyboard
A storyboard is a graphic organizer in the form of illustrations or images displayed in sequence for the purpose of pre-visualizing a motion picture, animation, motion graphic or interactive media sequence. The storyboarding process, in the form it is known today, was developed at Walt Disney Productions during the early 1930s.
Script
A screenplay or script is a written
work by screenwriters for a film,
video game, or television program.
These screenplays can be original
works or adaptations from existing
pieces of writing. In them, the
movement, actions, expression,
and dialogues of the characters
are also narrated.
Gantt Chart
A Gantt chart is a type of bar chart, developed by Henry Gantt in the 1910s, that illustrates a project schedule. Gantt charts illustrate the start and finish dates of the terminal elements and summary elements of a project. Terminal elements and summary elements comprise the work breakdown structure of the project.
Risk Assessment
Risk assessment is the determination of quantitative or qualitative value of risk related to a concrete situation and a recognized threat (also called hazard). Quantitative risk assessment requires calculations of two components of risk, the magnitude of the potential loss, and the probability that the loss will occur.
Location Recce
It refers to pre-filming visit to a location to work out its suitability for shooting, including access to necessary facilities and assessment of any potential lighting or sound issues, and is closely related to location scouting.
Call Sheet
The daily call sheet is a filmmaking term
for a sheet of paper created by an
assistant director that is issued to the cast
and crew of a film production to inform
them of where and when they should
report for a particular day of filming.
Budget
Film budgeting refers to the process by
which a line producer, unit production
manager, or filmmaker prepares a
budget for a film production. This
document, which could be over 150
pages long, is used to secure financing
for and lead to pre-production and
production of the film.
Release Agreement
A release agreement is a
document in which is signed
by actors in order to give legal
consent in order to for the
director to release the film
and/or short film.
Shooting Script
A shooting script is the version
of a screenplay used during the
production of a motion picture.
Shooting scripts are distinct
from spec scripts in that they
make use of scene numbers
(along with certain other
formatting conventions
described below), and they follow a well defined set of
procedures specifying how
script revisions should be
implemented and circulated.
Location Release Forms
These forms are required in
order to gain permission to
film in a certain location,
they’re often obtained by
the owner of the piece of
land or from the Town
Mayor.
Footage Log
Footage logging is a process in which video footage is watched and labeled according to its content.
If a video has a high shooting ratio, it can be impractical to remember exactly where each shot is on each source tape or source file. Finding a particular source shot by searching through hours of video during editing can be time consuming.
Asset Log
An asset log is where all personal
assets (mainly equipment) that is
taken for the purpose of filming
on that day is recorded down in
a log and any damage already
affecting the equipment is
noted.
This is particularly helpful
detouring any accusation of theft etc.
Overhead Diagram
An overhead diagram is a
snapshot of the area above
where the filming will take
place. There will be
annotations of several things
just like where the camera
people will be located,
along with where the actors
will play out a certain scene etc.
EDL (Edit Decision List)
An edit decision list or EDL
used in the post-
production process of film
editing and video editing.
The list contains an ordered
list of reel and timecode
data representing where
each video clip can be
obtained in order to conform the final cut.
Shot List
A shot list is a list put together normally by the director in order to plan which shots are going to be used for what scene and at which location.