Pre-Production Documentation

Monday, February 28, 2011

One last post for the month of February before it ends! & 2 more months to go before this semester will end! Okay, so working on the pre-production document really was quite an eye-opener for me, because even for such short films (approximately 4 mins in all) there's already so many considerations apart from the aesthetic design to look in! Imagine just how thorough the pre-production document for a sitcom would be, needless to say a movie!

Anyway I never understood the importance of a pre-production document until I actually got down to writing it. It's really useful to keep track of things and make sure everyone's on the same page! If it wasn't for this pre-production document, I would still be thinking that there's a lot of time to work on the final project, but HELL NO, we're really running out of time especially when the coming weeks will be when all the other essays/projects/presentations are going to be due. The weeks ahead are going to be a struggle! :O YOU GOTTA HANG IN THERE, SHERILYN!!

Okay, so scriptwriting can be quite fun. Once you get the hang of it, you'll start writing faster. It's especially useful to have the storyboard in front of you while writing the scripts, because everything becomes so much clearer! I'll post the storyboard for our videos up in just a moment, just be patient. I've learnt that writing scripts for pre-production document does not have to be very detailed as long as it captures the essential elements. You don't even need to include transitions, shots etc. - that will all be included in the production document. For pre-production, you basically need to capture the important actions as succinctly as possible!

So the ideas that we generated for our final project to promote NUS would be in the form of a MTV/Documentary, as well as an Advertisement. More details will be up in the pre-production document which will be handed up soon!

In the meantime, as promised here's the storyboard for our videos!

VIDEO 1: MTV/Documentary


VIDEO 2: Advertisement


Sounds interesting? Hope you're able to visualize it the way we do! Check back again at a later time for our progress!

& it's back to school again! ARGH, time to brave the winds of assignments, essays, projects, presentations!

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