Pre-Production

For the pre-production we had to fill out some documents before we could start shooting footage, we had to make a storyboard, script, recce and a production schedule along with a risk assessment.

The first piece of pre-production paperwork we did was a story board, this helped us when are group was location scouting. It did this by visualising what we wanted for are location so everyone knew what to look for making it easy to find a rough looking gloomy area. It also helped further down the line in production when shooting so we knew what to aim for. Aaron and Jessie were the ones to create the storyboard and form the plot.

The second piece of pre-production paperwork was the script, James created this. Because drift was only a one minute short was didn’t add much dialogue but instead we decided to depict the story through visualisations. This meant that script mainly consisted of stage directions and scene descriptions.

The third piece was the recce, Jessie and I created it. We did this after we found the perfect location for the shoot, it consisted of many different factors such as health and safety risks to the equipment and us and any preambles we might face during production.

And lastly we did the production schedule, Aaron created this as he had the role of director. This shows how we were going use are time throughout the project during pre-production, production and post-production.

I didn’t really like pre-production that much as I joined the group late and didn’t have much to do in it as most the paperwork had already been done, however in the next project I do I’d like to get more involved with pre-production especially with the storyboarding.

Production 

During production I was the main actor in Drift so I spent most of my time in front of the camera however I did some camera work at the beginning of the film. I enjoyed being the cameraman the most during production even if I didn’t do much of it.

Aaron was the director for most of the film but he did do a small bit of acting as the character how is shot, he was very good at giving instructions and directing camera work. we referred to the storyboard a lot however we changed quite a few scenes so it made more sense and flowed more, we also change a few scenes in post-production as well.

James was the main cameraman as this was are first project we choose James because he had previous experience with the camera. James also did some acting playing the role of the shooter in the film, so when he wasn’t filming Jessie took over the camera work.

We used variety of location for production: a tunnel near the quay, the studio and the hall way. We came across a few problems when most common was the public, because we decided to film in quite a popular area we constantly had to stop shooting to let people pass. This added a lot of time onto the project but we managed to work around it by having lookouts so we could time filming with less interruptions. Another problem that occurred was that the green screen in studio had some shadows on it, we knew this would make it hard to edit in post-production so we used the empty room to create sound and record dialogue. Because of this we had to move the scene to a different location but ended up not being much of a problem as the footage looked better in the different location.

Post-Production

James and Aaron took over most of the post-production as they both had experience with editing, they did a great job of piecing together the scenes. I helped with giving them ideas for what and how to edit however I didn’t do any myself.