3.1&2 Pre-production Techniques Prep Lesson Case Study in VHGS

Objective: to understand preproduction requirements for film and TV production 

Starter: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=7T2nnqFruNA

Using your worksheets Make notes on finance, auditions and time

What roles are mentioned and what do they do?
Who works in the production office?
What are the 3 stages of production?
What is clearance?
What is the total budget per episode of a BBC drama?

Task: For homework you will be producing a 700 word multimedia (embedded videos and images) Blog report on Pre-production requirements and processes. 

This lesson you will be compiling and sharing the information you collected on Pre-production requirements for VGHS. Complete the research write up your section of the worksheets in your sub-teams of 3.

Now return to your Teams of 7 and complete the whole worksheet together, sharing your understanding of each section. Make sure you have full information on the following

• What is required (ie what is needed)?
• What procedures, costs or activity is involved? 
• How do production managers organise and source what is required? 

Group 1. Finance: 

sources of finance; Kick starter, BFI, Private finance, Investors, National Lottery 

Budget requirements, equipment, transport, talent (cast/actors), crew (production), materials, facility hire (studio or edit suite)

Group 2. Time: 

Schedules: Pre-production, Production & Post-production activities to be scheduled

deadlines (importance of in the industry and production scheduling - release or broadcast deadline and insurance), 

availability of equipment (booking system in college), 

availability of personnel (call sheets how you plan to organise your crew and cast)

Group 3. Crew and Personnel: 

size of team (no budget production vs VGHS); roles, skills and experience; resourcing (Mandy.com); availability; costs (Union rate cards vs no budget)

Group 4. Resources (Facilities, Materials & Contributors): 

production equipment (kit list cams, lights, gels, reflectors, lenses, tripods, dolly, stabilisers), post-production equipment (edit suite, final cut x) 

availability & costs (hire of kit and edit suite in industry vs college resources)

original materials (produced by yourself soundtrack, foley, b-roll footage etc) archive and library materials (use of shutterstock for stock footage & costs) 

sound library materials (what is copyright free music or sound effects and how you would source this vs costs for paying for clearance)

costs & clearances (how much to use non-original materials and where from?)
talent (cast actors and extras sourcing these from actor websites, magazines or agencies)

Group 6. Locations: 

identification; (scouting, resources to find suitable locations and permissions) recces (on site visual inspection report) limitations and risks: distance, access (able to transport crew and equipment to site, cost (what do owners charge for filming), weather & lighting, background sound, public usage

Group 7. Codes of practice and regulation: 

clearances, Mechanical Copyright Protection Society-Performing Rights Society Alliance (MCPS-PRS),

location permissions; (local council - Kent film licence)

legal, eg copyright (music, archive or stock footage, using pre-existing intellectual property), 

health and safety; (having police aware of filming, risk assessments)

insurance, (public liability insurance)

regulatory bodies:

British Board of Film Classification (BBFC); (yours is a web-broadcast compared to cinema or UK territory release/broadcast)

trade unions:

Producers’ Alliance for Cinema and Television (PACT), 

Broadcasting Entertainment, Cinematograph and Theatre Union (BECTU) (rate cards and working conditions, overtime etc)

Assessment Task:

Once you have completed the research, return to your groups of 7. 

Use Google Docs to create a collaborative presentation, where you will edit live the document under your allocated section, using the information you have discovered.

Here are instructions on how you do this: https://support.google.com/docs/answer/2494891?hl=en 

Your individual section ought to include:

1. Description of what is involved (for example time requires scheduling of Pre, Production and Post - what is involved in each of these stages)
2. How this is sourced, managed or organised (for example storyboard or hired from facilities house, funds are raised by who from where?) 
3. What processes are involved in managing this aspect (for example casting actors and auditions by the Casting Director)
4. Information on costs and reference to actual organisations or business or agencies that would be involved
5. A summative comment on each section on what was involved in organising the production of the episode of VGHS involving costs and processes.

YOU MAY REFER TO YOUR SPECIALIST SUB-TEAM ONCE TO HELP YOU COMPLETE YOUR TEAM's PRESENTATION

For Homework you will be applying what you learned here to the production of your Webisode

Resources/example of Merit standard:

http://benalexanderkippenbtec.blogspot.co.uk/2012/11/unit-1-pre-production-techniques-in.html?m=1