Lesson plan job roles

1. BIG PICTURE
LA A – Understanding Pre
Production – third task on Job
Roles
KEYWORDS
Technical Crew, Specialist and
Experts, talent
LEARNING OBJECTIVES
Evaluate the extent to
which pre-production requirements, processes
and documentation contributes to the success
of planning and delivering a specific digital
media product.
SUCCESS CRITERIA
Completed notes on job roles
Take your seat. Bag under your desk.
Have your equipment and planner out.
Topic – Unit 4 – Pre Production
• What different job roles need to be filled, and what jobs done, as part of the
pre-production of a new film release?

2. TELL ME
STUFF!
TAKE ME
THROUGH
IT…
LET ME
HAVE A
GO…
DO I GET
IT?
1 2 3 4 5 6
SETTING THE
SCENE
JOINING UP
LEARNING
LINKS TO LAST
TIME
PASSING ON
KNOWLEDGE
GUIDED PRACTICE
& MODELLING
INDEPENDENT
PRACTICE –
APPLYING THE
SKILLS TO NEW
SITUATIONS
ASSESSMENT &
FEEDBACK
PULL IT TOGETHER
JOINING UP
LEARNING
LINKS TO NEXT
TIME

3. 1. You need to understand what different job roles have a part to play in the
pre production process
2. The more interesting way to do this is to examine a media text and identify
who would have done what to get it on the screen
• My example is from television and is an episode
of Buffy the Vampire Slayer – Season 4 Episode 13
- "The 'I' in Team"
• This is typical of regular continuing television
drama production
• It worked on a six week cycle, once all of the basic
background planning development had been
done for the season as a whole and scripts had
been commissioned. For each episode...
• 2 weeks of pre production –
finalising scripts, storyboarding, locations and
sets, props and costumes, special and visual
effects, extras and specialists casting, legal and
health and safety planning, practical
production management (catering, parking,
toilets...)
• 2 weeks of production – the shoot
• 2 weeks of post production – editing, special
effects, sound, ADR, reshoots, finalising...
• This goes on repeatedly through the season –
so by the time Episode 1 screens Episode 2 will
be in post production, Episode 3 will be in
production and Episode 4 will be in pre
production.

4. What do you need to produce?
1. Look at my model examples from the first two scenes
of the show
2. I have set out what would need to be done during pre
production across a range of different departments and
job roles in each of those scenes
3. I've deliberately chosen two very 'different' scenes – S1
is an internal dialogue based scene with very few
characters, S2 is an external action scene set at night
with more characters, a 'monster', a fight scene and
weapons. That allows me to write about a range of
different job roles and requirements.
• Choose three other scenes – there's a list on
the blog of all of the scenes in the show to help
you choose
• Make sure you choose at least one 'simple'
non-action dialogue based scene, and at least
one more complex action scene, along with
third which is somehow different again. (Visual
effects? Night rather than day? Interesting
camera movement?)

5. Go for it
• The episode is on the blog
• The model answers are on the blog
• Obviously you can't choose the scenes that I've written
the model answers on
• You can choose any others. If you want some guidance, I
think the following are quite good to write about here
but it's entirely up to you so long as your choices cover...
• A straightforward dialogue scene
• An action scene
• Something interior
• Something exterior
• Something with special and visual effects
S4 – Spike and Giles in Spike's tomb – a location scene in
a recurring set with regular characters, with some
interesting things about lighting and mise en scene
S5 – Int at The Initiative – regular recurring set – extras
and recurring characters – lots of set design, props and
cinematography issues
S8 – Group of characters in the Bronze – a location scene
in a recurring set - extras, music, interesting lighting...
S21 – Buffy and monsters fight scene – interesting
original set – special effects, fight choreography, use of
duel settings and monitors
And S11, which intercuts between a fight scene and a (12
certificate rated) sex scene and a surveillance scene
elsewhere and has loads of things going on but is quite
long and would probably count as two although you'd
need to say this somewhere.

6. We will visit the Distinction criteria - Evaluate the extent to which
pre-production requirements, processes and documentation
contributes to the success of planning and delivering a specific
digital media product – at every stage
1. Not for the first time, there is a very
obvious answer to the Distinction
task – how do these job roles and
processes contribute to the success
of the pre production processes?
Evaluating for Distinction
1. The example in the markscheme says
• A rejection of permission to film in a location
during the pre-production phase might result
in a change of location, with planning still
possible ahead of shooting the film. The
connection between the financial, logistical
and regulatory requirements of pre-production
planning will be demonstrated through
learners’ ability to comment on how they
impacted the production, for example learners
will observe that poor logistical planning
resulted in a financial overspend, or a failure to
check the copyright of the music resulted in a
last minute change of music that had a
negative impact on the final film.

7. BIG PICTURE MY LEARNING
How did this
lesson fit into
your other
lessons?
What is my top
take- away from
the lesson?
Have you contributed to the lesson? Will you be able to improve
next lesson? Do you know what you need to go away and do?
o Have you kept up?
o Have you covered a range of
job roles from different
departments as set out on the
task sheet?
o Have you evaluated why these
roles are processes are so
important?