MEST4: Preliminary exercise planning

Before you start shooting your preliminary exercise recreation, you need to complete planning documents.

Your planning does not need to be extensive but it DOES need to exist. You need to complete the following before you can borrow one of our camera kits:

Script/treatment
For a music video, you need to produce a treatment outlining what will happen in the video.  For a film or TV production, you'll need a script. Whatever you're producing, you need a written plan of what happens and what is spoken.

Storyboard
For a recreation, you may want to create a screengrabbed storyboard. This involves capturing each of the shots in the 30-second sequence you are recreating and pasting them in order with written notes in a blogpost or Word document. Alternatively, storyboard sheets are available in DF07.

Shot list
The most important document you will create: a full shot list containing every shot you need out on location. Take this document with you when you film and tick them off one by one.

Mise-en-scene planning
Mise-en-scene is the most important aspect of a good recreation. You need a location, cast, costume and props to exactly match the original production. This is one of the most difficult aspects of the task!

Put all of these documents on your blog - scans/pictures are fine or use Google Drive to save documents and link from your blog.

Preliminary exercise deadline (planning, filming AND editing): Friday 21 January.

Good luck!