The document summarizes the pre-production planning for a short horror film shot in the filmmaker's house, including creating a mind map of ideas, researching film trends, scheduling production, obtaining permission to film on location, writing a script without dialogue, completing a risk assessment, creating a storyboard, planning equipment needs, and managing resources and budgets. Key elements included choosing a house location familiar to the filmmaker, developing a script to guide scenes without words, ensuring safety through a risk assessment, using a storyboard to plan shots and communicate with cast and crew, and organizing paperwork and communication to manage resources effectively.

1. Pre production- evaluation
My initial planning-
When first starting to plan for this short film, I used a mind map and drafted some ideas
which I could start of with first. I went through a range of ideas before I got my final one.
The way I figured out my final idea, was to test each situation with if it would work well with
the audience and which they may be attracted to more. I did research into the latest trend
and fashion in films and I built my ideas from these.
I scheduled my film into sections and weeks to make sure the plan worked out in time for
the cast crew and to make sure it got done in time.
location
For this part of pre-production, I had to find places which would be suitable to shoot my
short film. For the short film I would need to get any permissions if needed to be allowed to
film on this site/location. For the location I decided to do it in my house therefore I only
needed permission from my parents. This worked well as I didn’t need to get permission
from a professional site.
I was gaining experience by filming off the college premises and learning more knowledge of
the media industry in filming in multiple locations. I chose my house as I knew it would be a
fitting location for a horror short filmas many existing products have this type of location
also.
If I had another chance to do this again I would filmmore outside to give more locations
rather than just one location. This may improve the quality and also lengthen the time of
the film massively.
Script
The script for my short film didn’t involve much. This is because the short filmdidn’t involve
any dialogue. Even with no dialogue, I had to write a script for this project, because without
a script this project would not work as a script is crucial of pre-production.
The script, personally, is quite successful because it gives more of a basic story to expand on
for the characters and it brings everything together. The script runs smooth into each
scenes describing what the characters will be doing. For example, facial expressions.
Risk assessment
For the risk assessment I had to locate and decide which risks may occur on and off the
camera whilst filming in the environment. For example, filming in a doorway, with less space
this may may it harder to have more space leading someone to trip over a wire. You do risk
assessments to make sure that others involved in the production are safe and don’t hurt
themselves. If the risk is not identified to may to happen, it may be a shock not knowing
what to do when other people could be injured.
My risk assessment was very successful as nobody was injured in the production process
because I alerted the the potential risks to everyone involved. The helped everyone to know
they are in a safe environment.

2. Storyboard
The purpose of the storyboard was to plan how we wanted each scene to be set before I
start filming. This also helps me decide what happens to finalize to follow what to filmnext.
Each person involved also got a copy so they knew what they, where doing where with what
expressions. The hoped outcome was to make sure that every shot in my filmwas set up to
make my final product look professional and organised as I can make it. without a
storyboard, the film wouldn’t be organised and cast and camera location could go wrong
and may ruin the overall product.
My storyboard was successful because during the days of filming, I did not waste time
explaining about what is going next with which cast. Each cast member knew what was
happening and it saved a lot of time.
Equipment
The equipment I planned out what I may need to save time. These were from the camera I
am using to any props needed and planned to be used. This was successful for my short film
because I wrote an equipment list to tick off along with the storyboard and script. This was
to make my film as professional as I could and the props helped when it came to the filming
phase of the project.
Finance-
With the budget, I never had to purchase anything. This was because I borrowed some of
the things from the college and the other things I already had. Once done with what I had
borrowed I returned once finished. There was no budget for travel as I lived with the actors
and the budget sheet I had provides the information of what was used and the price.
Managing resources-
To manage everything, I had a folder which had all the documents in and also had the cast
and crew know everything so it is all up to date.