This document outlines pre-production plans for a short film or trailer, including: - Discussing font and tone options - Layouts for storyboards depicting dangerous props and a character's oblivious death - Props, costumes, and location needs like a kitchen and office - Contingency plans for technical issues and reshoots - Health and safety precautions for working with props and computer use - A 6-day schedule for creating posters, merchandise, recording scenes, and editing the trailer

1. Pre-Production
ryan

2. Some monochromatic effect of it getting brighter or something
Style sheet
This one is comic sans
This one is times new roman
This dark tone is good, but maybe not this black – on – gray text.
Those two fonts are overused and this one is just silly so I will use comic sans as a
Or something like that. Comic sans is best used to relieve tension or show that nothin
will happen and then BAM the grim reaper shows up or there’s a jump scare
(examples)

3. Layout 1

4. Layout 2
Some tragic way to die like a knife to
Freaking stab someone.
Explain why its there
Joke about the director or producer,
who are the same person, called ryan.
Title.

5. Story Board
• A bunch of stuff set up to kill someone.
• Shots around an area to show dangerous items like a knife of
a kitchen counter, or an elephant waiting to stand on
someone.
• They are sat looking at someone or something distracting
• They stand up then fall over and die.
Character “enjoys” a good
book, is completely oblivious
to everything.
Shot of a weapon looking menacing

6. Props & Locations
Props/Costume needed Locations needed
A book or a phone or something A room with a bookshelf that a book can
be picked up from
A camera dolly The room again with space for it
An office to create the final products on a
computer
The Office
A knife to look at Kitchen countertop
A book for the main character to read A place to act out reading it
A coca cola shirt A good wardrobe

7. Contingency Planning
Potential Issue Solution
the place being full wait for another time or ask for stuff to be
moved
mechanical failures with the camera setup Fix this mechanical failure.
wobble from the way the dolly is operated. use different way of movement, or hold it
steady
some computer not working use a different one, or fix the problem
loss of data including footage Reshoot it.

8. Health and Safety
Potential Issue How will the issue be
avoided?
dropping the props, involving a knife and
bleeding to death from the feet, or just losing
the toes
wear shoes, use a blunt knife
eyestrain from the computer screen take regular breaks
bad circulations from the sitting take regular breaks
falling over in the death scene in the trailer and
breaking a nose or some other injury
fall on something soft and remove it in post

9. Schedule
Day Plan of Action Resources Required
Day 1  create poster 1 using photoshop  some computer and a
knife thing image that
can be copied
Day 2  create merchandise using a template and
photoshop
 a template of a shirt an
some computer
Day 3  create poster 2 using photoshop  some way of writing
some stuff on a black
background
Day 4  record scenes for the trailer  camera, a dolly for the
camera, a tripod.
Day 5  edit the videos for the trailer and with some
free ominous music
 Vegas Pro of the Adobe
one
Day 6  render that trailer using vegas pro  whichever of the
programs above was
chosen.