FMP pre-production

1. Pre-Production

2. Resources
Pre-production is important for the smooth running of a project. It
is for you to go through final development and organisation for
your project before you start production.
The pre-production tasks you do will depend on your project. You
need to undertake appropriate tasks in order to make your project
work.
A production schedule should be in everyone’s project.
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3. PRE-PRODUCTION
Pre-production paperwork for a print production could include:
• Risk assessment
• Flat plans
• Style Sheets
• Equipment/Resource list
• Contingency plan
• Copy (the written part of your work)
• Thorough production schedule/ Action Plan
• Location Recce for photographs
• Budget
• Model call sheet

4. PRE-PRODUCTION
Pre-production paperwork for moving image could include:
• Risk assessment
• Storyboard
• Shotlist
• Equipment list and bookings
• Contingency plan
• Script
• Thorough production schedule/ Action Plan
• Call sheet
• Location Recce
• Budget

5. PRE-PRODUCTION
Pre-production paperwork for a video game production could
include:
• Risk assessment
• Sound effect list
• Music list
• Style sheet or other visual planning
• Contingency plan
• Scene plan
• Thorough production schedule/ Action Plan
• Budget

6. PRE-PRODUCTION
Pre-production paperwork for an audio production could include:
• Risk assessment
• Sound effect list
• Music list
• Equipment/Resource list
• Script/Questions
• Contingency plan
• Location plan
• Contributor information (interviewees/guests/actors)
• Thorough production schedule/ Action Plan
• Budget

7. PRE-PRODUCTION
• Style sheet
– Collection of potential choice you could make for your products visuals
(colours, image styles and fonts). Provide some indication of which ones you
will use, where you will use them and reasons why
– This should explore alternatives to everything- don’t just include one
option. Look at several potential aspects to include and reference the ones
you plan to use and why
• Layout Plans
– Potential designs you could do for your product using images, fonts and
colours from style sheet

8. PRE-PRODUCTION Colour schemes:
This is important for
any visual product.
Talk about the options
you have, the
decisions you are
making and relate
your ideas back to
exiting products and
your target audience.

9. PRE-PRODUCTION

10. PRE-PRODUCTION
Storyboard

11. Pre-production
• What are you making?
• I’ll be making an action thriller trailer. Such a trailer will include basic story and characters with
exciting scenes to make the action part more evident. There will be dark themes involved such as
blood and violence.
• Why?
• The key of this movie as a whole is to emphasise that street fighting isn’t upholding the point of
traditional martial arts. But also that martial arts are perhaps not always most effective when
honour is upheld.
• Who is it for?
• It’s for people who like drama as well as action with some dark themes. People who are interested in
martial arts may perhaps enjoy some of the fight scenes. It’ll be aimed at people ages 16 – 30. A
broad enough age range to be able to flexibly input many different themes without offending
immature audiences
• Where will it appear/on what?
• Most likely it’ll appear on Netflix as it’s one of the most vastly used streaming media in the world
and does a great job of advertising and recommending certain genres to people who enjoy titles
similar to it. So people who are likely to enjoy Action Thrillers will run into this trailer.
Reflection:

12. Colour Palette
I’ll be using a color palette based off this because of the cold and dark shades of blue and
black but I’ll also be allowing the pink and warmer oranges to creep through as a sense of
security falls over scenes.
There will be moments in the trailer where darker and softer color tints will be used, such
as scenes where tension is building.
Warmer and perhaps broader colors will be used in action scenes because they’re
harsher on the eye much like the camera shots will be ill-at ease in relation to the
characters and in turn, the audience.
Colors will contrast as much as tension in scenes contrast.

13. Music:
The music I plan on using will most likely be copyrighted so I’ll need to ask permission from
the owners. However I have many ideas for music that’ll fit in nicely with the script. I hope
to have a composition with story - a rise in tension and calmer areas.
Music will likely be an orchestra with drama, perhaps with some rock elements. Such music
should fit in with the target audience too. Not a lot of 16 – 30 year olds would be
particularly interested in classical music for example. So something modern as well as
related to the trailer is what I’ll use.
A few ideas I have in mind are:
https://youtu.be/2PaWxWqJ96I - Oblivion unreleased soundtrack (maybe)
https://youtu.be/aAdSrUwkEyQ - Choir, rise in tension. Mystery
https://youtu.be/dAdKOHG12fI - Dark action
https://youtu.be/tB9amV8FPwU - generic action

14. https://youtu.be/2PaWxWqJ96I - Oblivion unreleased soundtrack (maybe)
Very good intro for a voice over – character soliloquizing perhaps about the events to
follow in the movie – could be done using any sort of audio recorder on phone and copied
into the adobe premier pro along with the footage and soundtrack.
A two-part soundtrack: There’s a split in the soundtracks that make it evidently different.
A mid-point where I could introduce a warmer palette with all of the action scenes.
There are areas with inputted sound effects such as blade swings which I can take
advantage of in the action/combat scenes.
This track is an unreleased soundtrack so I MAY be copyright free but I will have to look
further into it and if need be, I’ll ask the composer if I’ll be allowed to use it for the project
if I decide to use it.
There are points in this soundtrack I could input jump scares and wording of characters
that aim to put the audience on edge.
Music Track 1

15. Music Track 2
https://youtu.be/aAdSrUwkEyQ - Epic & Powerful Action Trailer Score
Very good crisp modern piece with bass and snare drums. Orchestrated as I’m planning the
piece to have. This will allow for dramatic scenes to naturally unfold. The piece is
approximating to others of the genre, so the current trailer won't be an anomaly.
The fact that the score is modern can allow for the audience to be more familiar with the
sounds and effects used. Such a score could make the piece seem up-to-date with the times
and how trailers are made.
Story evident in the score, starting off slow and in a sense, setting the scene. Elements of the
track include motor engine – could input motorbike? Perhaps cars.
Later on in the track as the tension rises, war drums become apparent in the track. Very good
for action scenes being advertised with warm and almost fiery colours. Dead silence nearer
the end before a climax.

16. Music Track 3
https://youtu.be/dAdKOHG12fI - Aggressive Suspenseful Cinematic Music
This piece is similar to Music Track two. It’s slow and bassy intro can be used to create
suspense. The intro ticks like a clock which I could use as an element in my trailer. Ticking of a
clock like time is running out.
The track picks up with some drum and bass and moves along at a slow and steady pace,
mood rises and stays there. For this I could film the action scenes, still sticking to the warm in
action color-palette.
The track is very much horror-action which is what I’m going for. There’s nothing complex
about it other than the inputted sound effects to take the audience off-guard to cause jump
scares.
Talking can be done inbetween cresendos in the score. Once the script is written, I’ll have it
revolve around the music.

17. Music Track 4
https://youtu.be/tB9amV8FPwU - Dramatic Cinematic Music | Copyright Free
This music is primarily a drum piece with a good rise in tension as the score goes on. There
are multiple key changes which can allow for continuous action. Only problem I’d face would
be fitting in dialogue.
The drums pace the music to be fairly fast which means there’s sure to be a lot of use of the
warmer colours in my palette. There’s rarely any pause which means the audience will be
given no time to rest or think about what’s going on.

18. Equipment/props:
Fake blood: Easy enough to make a mixture – Dr Pepper and CocaCola tic tacs will
make camera worthy blood effects.
Camera stabilizer: I’ll need a good stabilizer so that footage isn’t rocky. I’ll have
hand-held shots during action scenes to have the audience more drawn in and
immersed into the scenes.
Masks: Characters will be wearing full face masks – a part of the plot and also means
actors can wear facemasks on set to make shooting safer whilst ALSO broadening my
cast to the maximum.
Clothing: Characters will be wearing dark clothing to be suited to the theme. The
main character will be wearing a leather jacket and the others, black hoodies and
perhaps bullet proof vests. Secondary protagonist will also be wearing black-casual
clothing.

19. Camera shots:
- I’ll be including a lot of close-up shots to better and more intimately show
characters’ emotions during tense conversation. These will be shot in calmer
scenes before the action kicks off so that the audience can pay full attention to
information being given to them as the characters share.
- I’ll have a lot more shots taken during action scenes, though I’ll need to find a
balance in case I film too much and combat becomes hard to track. I’ll also need
to figure out what choreography is too complex and hard to track by a camera.
- There will be scenes where a handheld camera without a stabilizer may be
required for over the shoulder views to immerse the viewer more, as if they’re
actually following the character.
- I’ll use low shots to establish power for some characters. These shots will be done
slow moving from one side of the character to another.

20. Budget:
- I’ll be spending little money on actual equipment. Equipment I need, I already
have. I have a stabilizer to hand so I won’t have to pay for that.
- Masks I will have to set aside around £30 for a set of cheap but realistic full face
masks for the assassins. These masks will be ordered online from most likely
either Amazon or EBay.
- I’ll need no budget to pay for costume as my friends already have black hoodies.
But I will set aside £10 just in case I have to buy anything that needs changing.
- I’ll be setting aside another £20 for actor travel fees as there will be a lot of
different locations we’ll be shooting with different times of day. No doubt
someone will need to take the bus more than once a week so I’ll be able to pay
them back them for their time.
- Total estimated budget - £60

21. Locations:
- 8 Fossway – Very good isolated spot with a view for camera shots from the
bridge. Very good for conversation scenes – may have to voice over.
Can be used in
the intro to match
the calm music
intro of the music
score.
- Sefton avenue – Well hidden natural pathway that leads to an opening where I
can film action scenes without getting in the way of anyone.
Lots of dead trees,
very good dystopian
scene to be set.

22. Locations:
- End of Poplar grove just by the River Foss.
Perfect place for
shooting darker scenes in
a dramatic setting. There
is a bridge further down
the path which can be
used for other scenes.
- Huntington mews
Good secluded place for
recording.

23. Contingency plan:
- If actors cannot make it to filming – Reschedule to a later date or, if possible, film
as much as possible with actors that can make it.
- In case of injury during combat choreography, practice moves and how to take
the falls as safe as possible. If unlikely event of injury does happen, halt filming
until the actor can continue or

24. Script:
INTRO:
[00:00] Bass hits, dark setting, close shot on main character as another character says [00:02]
“They’re coming for you” as main character looks away, smiling mockingly.
[00:05] Shot turns to a figure in a mask looking over shoulder, then as choir [00:07] sounds –
camera moves across a group in similar clothing, all with the same mask.
Bass hits again, [00:09]
Richie: Let them. This is the war they wanted. It’s up to them to face the consequences. (sharp
gaze, camera slightly to the side, close to Ritchie’s face, zooming into his eye as the camera
zooms out to an eye under a mask as the choir sings again)
[00:18] Echoes: The acolytes of our creed will break you if you do not come willingly. [00:27]
Join us! Or Perish with the rest of them!
[00:30] Choir sings again: Snippet of an execution scene.
[00:33] Camera faces down as they’re executed and transitions to a road where a car is coming
round the corner. Plays very well with the motor engine sound effect that comes with the track.
[00:37] Close-up of a moving wheel on the car as it chases. I’ll do this by using a photo-realistic
video game to take the shots without risking death from hanging out of a car window.

25. Pre-production:
Use this space to document whatever pre-production work you did for your project.
It will vary from person to person and project to project. You will need to add more
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26. Resources
Equipment/ Props/
Costume needed
Locations needed
Black Leather Jacket/black jeans Sefton
Black hoodie x4 Poplar grove
White Mask x4 Huntington Mews
Fake blood Fossway
Camera stabilizer By River Foss
Huntington Road

27. Contingency Planning
Potential Issue Solution
Friends can’t show up. Reschedule .
Injury during combat choreography. Plan choreographs carefully and practice taking
the falls.
Shooting areas unavailable/crowded. Come back at a later date or film in another
location completely.
Weather gets too bad. Film at a later date/reschedule.

28. Health and Safety
Potential Issue How will the issue be
avoided?
Injury during choreography. Plan choreographs carefully and practice taking
the falls.

29. Production Schedule
Day/Lesson Tasks