The document discusses various planning and preparation techniques for shooting a TV field production. It describes creating a director's strategy, blocking scenes, and planning each shot with framing and camera movements. Key tools for previsualization include overheads, storyboards, shot lists, and shooting scripts to plan camera setups and visualize how individual shots and whole scenes will be covered. It also discusses organizing the production using techniques like production boards, lined scripts, and call sheets to efficiently schedule shooting.

1. TV Field Production
Shooting List, Shot List and Story Boards

2. Preparation To Shoot
— Director’s strategy
— A plan for visual & dramatic approach to the day’s work
— Blocking the scenes
— The setups
— Personality and motivation of characters
— Scene action within the larger context of the script

3. Preparing a scene
— Each shot planned with framing and movement
— Director should know all movements of actors, wher they
should be when delivering lines and how the camera will
cover the script.
— Organization and preparation are very important.

4. Previsualization
— Visualizing a film in advance is a difficult skill to develop
— Individual shots are easy, but whole scenes are challenging
— Tools:
— Overhead
— Storyboards
— Shot List
— Shooting Scripts

5. Overheads
— Diagrams from overhead
— Draw diagram of location or set
— Think about movement of characters while they say their lines
— Block with actors in rehearsal
— Devise a few setups
— Decide what material from script you will cover in each setup
— Decide where the line is and where to start shooting

6. Storyboards
— Each shot on one side of the page while script, dialogue,
actions on the other side
— Determine limited camera setups needed that wer eon the
overhead diagram
— Apportion Action and Dialogue to those setups on the story
board
— The storyboard will give the framing of the shot and movement
of camera and talent
— Assign lines and action to each setup
— Movement represented by key framings with arrows indicating
direction of movement

7. Shooting Scripts and Shot Lists
— Initial scripts are bare bones with no camera direction or
character movement
— Then a shooting script is put together with numbered scenes
— The shot list is a less formal alternative to the storyboard
— It list brief written descriptions of the intended shots

8. a typical scene
— A master scene as we already discussed-
— First go through the dialogue showing all the action
characters, and set
— Cover each characters most important, dramatic line.
— Scene 8 Master scene wide
— Takes
— Scene 8a Medium shot of whole scene
— Scene 8B John CU
— Scene 8 C Andrea CU

9. Coverage
— Shooting the action and dialogue of a scene from more that
one setup is called coverage
— It should be built into the shooting plan
— Individual dialogue and action shot from different angles
— Gives options in the edit
— Shooting from every possible angle makes the editor have to
redirect the film
— Shooting parts of the film from only one angle, keeps the
control tight in the edit- Alfred Hitchhock

10. Production design and Costume
— Visual elements help define a character
— Modern sets
— Stereotyped rooms
— Future worlds- Dr. Strangelove, Brazil,
— Color –warm or cool tones
— Texture –empty or cluttered gives a lot of information about
the character

11. Organization On The Set
— Once preproduction is over a film moves to principal
photography
— Tools useful in creating order for shooting
— Production Board- a representation of the scenes and all
elements that the script requires
— Characters
— Props
— Vehicles
— Sets
— Locations
— Time

12. Scenes listed on strips
— Across horizontal axis
— Scenes are put in order according to how PM or AD foresees
shooting them
— Scenes or the whole movie are not shot in chronological
order
— They are shot in order according to when elements are
available
— Movie Magic, Production Partners software scheduling
packages

13. Production Board or Scheduling
software
— It assists AD or PM in the most efficient approach to shooting
an entire feature film

14. Story Board & shotlist
— Organize the crew’s daily activities
— Setups can be organized to include all work in that area being
completed before moving on
— All talent schedules and extra’s schedule can be
— If a storyboard is posted in a public place or is distributed this
can be a way for all departments to anticipate the needs for
the shoot
— The storyboard lays out how shots are supposed to be edited
together

15. Lined Script
— Script super will draw a vertical line through the dialogue
that is being covered from a specific setup
— The idea is to show the material has been covered from
which angles.
— 8A master, 8B/ MS, 8C MS, 8D CU

16. Production Forms
— Budget
— Script Breakdown
— Call sheets
— Continuity and script note