production schedule for short film billy

1. Unit 17 - Brandon Mundy, Mohammed Waseem & Brad Tocque
Production Schedule
We will film over a period of time and will shoot different scenes and settings. The schedule
will allow us to know when we'll be shooting the film. Below is a breakdown of the main
shoots will be doing and also the editing that will take place.
Scene 1 - Heath Park, Tuesday
● E/S of the school and Billy just about to come out - 4:30pm - 4:35pm
● M/S of Billy - 4:35 - 4:40
● C/U of Billy - 4:40pm - 4:45pm
● M/S of Billy taking bag off - 4:45 - 4:50pm
● C/U Close up of him unzipping his bag - 4:50pm - 4:55pm
● C/U Close up of his face - 4:55pm - 5:00pm
● C/U Close up of him pulling out Boy in striped pajamas - 5:00pm - 5:05pm
● C/U Close up of Billy’s face, which shows a keen interest in the book - 5:05pm -
5:10pm
● M/S A tracking shot of Billy walking home - 5:10pm - 5:15pm
● C/U A close up of Billy walking home. He comes to a stand still - 5:15pm - 5:20pm
● C/U Close up of his hand unzipping the bag and pulling out a ‘Boy In Striped
Pajamas’ from the bag - 5:20pm - 5:25pm
● C/U Over the shoulder of him examining the book - 5:25pm - 5:30pm
● C/U Close up of Billy’s face of him examining the book, and then he walks out of the
shot - 5:30pm - 5:35pm
● M/S From across the street we see Billy continuing his journey home - 5:35pm -
5:40pm
● M/S Mid shot from behind Billy who is still walking home down a street 5:40pm -
5:45pm
● M/S Mid shot of Billy walking towards his front door on his driveway. Billy gets his
keys and puts them in the camera as if the camera is the keyhole. 5:45pm - 5:50pm
● M/S Over the shoulder following Billy into the house. 5:50pm - 5:55pm

2. Scene 2 - House, Wednesday
● M/S Mid shot of Billy from the top of the stairs with him walking up the Stairs - 4:30 -
4:35
● C/U A close up of Billy’s face as he is ignored by his mother. 4:35 - 4:40
● M/S Mid shot of him walking up the stairs to his room.4:40 - 4:45
● M/S Mid shot of him opening the door to his room, while taking the book out of his
bag and lying on his bed. 4:45 - 4:50
● C/U Close up of Billy reading an extract from the book. 4:50 - 4:55
● C/U Close up of the book he is reading with the voice over still going. 4:55 - 5:00pm
● C/U Close up of Billy’s face yawning and beginning to tire. 5:00 - 5:05pm
● C/U Close up of the book, blurred vision and swaying camera movement to represent
the tiredness. Vision fades to black with voice-overs voice becoming distorted.5:05 -
5:10
● M/S Mid shot of Billy leaping up from his bed towards the camera as the alarm clock
rings. 5:10 - 5:15pm
● C/U Close up shot of the alarm that is going off, angled so you can see Billy slightly
blurred out he turns the alarm clock off. 5:15 - 5:20pm
● M/S A mid shot that follows and pans Billy walking down the stairs and walks towards
his front door. 5:20pm - 5:25pm
● C/U A close up of Billy’s face before he opens the door to look back at his mom
where she stayed the whole night.
● M/S Mid shot of the same frame of when he first saw his mom on the sofa.
● C/U Close up of him turning around and opening the door to his house

3. Scene 3 - Park Scene, Tuesday
· C/U of the alarm that is going off angled o you can see billy slightly blurred out he turns the
alarm clock off. 4:00-4:05
· M/S that follows and pans Billy walking down the stairs and walks towards his front door
4:05-4:10
· C/U of Billy’s face as he opens the door to look back at his mom where she stayed all night
4:10-4:15
· M/S of the same frame of when he saw his mom on the sofa 4:15-4:20
· C/U of him turning around and opening the door to his house 4:20-4:25
· M/S of him walking through the park 4:25-4:30
· M/S of billy walking towards and sitting on a bench 4:30-4:35
· C/U of him pulling out his book from his bag 4:35-4:40
· C/Rotating shot of him starting to read the book with a blurred figure walking towards him
and knocks. 4:40-4:45
· C/U of the book that has just hit the ground 4:45-4:50
· C/Back up to the same close up with the blurred figure over shoulder shot.it stay like that for
a few seconds until he walks out of the shot 4:50-4:55
· C/U it then shows a close up of Billy’s face and his emotion 4:55- 5:00
· M/S of those tracks walking towards the book that was thrown 5:00-5:05
· C/U of his hand picking up the book 5:05-5:10
· C/U of him looking at the dirtied book and wiping the book 5:10-5:15
· M/S of walking back to his bag and talking to the book 5:15-5:20
· C/U of billy putting the book into his bag 5:20-5:25

4. Scene 4 - Woods Scene, Friday
· M/S of billy walking into the woods 4:00-4:05
· M/S of billy still walking into the woods 4:05-4:10
· M/S of billy walking through the woods 4:10-4:15
· C/U over the shoulder shot of billy walking deeper into the woods 4:15-4:20
· C/U Close up of Billy’s face establishing his surroundings 4:20-4:25
· C/U of Billy’s face as he turns around 4:25-4:30
· M/S mid shot of the surroundings showing nothing with billy in the middle scanning his
· Surroundings 4:30-4:35
· C/U close up of billy as he turns around with a not so familiar smile on his face. But his smile
fades as he realises there is no one around him and he is alone again 4:35-4:40
· M/S Slowly moving tracking shot of billy navigating through the woods from the side 4:40-
4:45
· C/U of Billy’s face as he starts to get agitated and anxious at the fact no one is around him
4:45-4:50
· M/S Mid shot of the woods showing nothing 4:50-4:55
· C/U close up of billy scanning another part of his surroundings 4:55-5:00
· M/s mid shot of another part of Billy’s surroundings 5:00-5:05
· M/Sod shot with billy in the centre of the screen and a whisper is heard as it is heard a
trombone shot occurs 5:00- 5:10
· M/S as billy is scared and scanning his surroundings the pan slowly stops and rises towards
his head and slows down until it stops because of a bottle in the distance 5:10-5:15
· Shift focus of a close up of the bottle which then focuses on billy in the background 5:15-5:20
· C/u if billy waiting for a response 5:20-5:25
· C/u of bottle 5:25-5:27
· C/u of billy looking confused5:27-5:29
· C/u of bottle responds to billy 5:29-5:31
· C/u of billy talks to the bottle 5:31-5-33
· C/U of bottle talking to billy 5:33-5:35
· C/u of billy talking to the bottle 5:35-5:37
· C/U of bottle responding 5:37-5:40
· C/U of billy talking 5:40-5:43
· C/u of bottle responding 5:43-5:45
· C/u of billy talking 5:45-5:47
· c/U of bottle answering 5:47-5:49
· C/u of billy talking with bottle 5:49-5:52
· C/u of bottle answering billy 5:52-5:55
· C/U of billy talking5:55-5:57
· C/U of bottle answering again 5:57-6:00
Scene 4 - Woods, Scene (Continue Recording), Monday

5. · C/U of billy talking to bottle 4:00-4:05
· C/U of bottle 4:05-4:10
· M/s of billy and bottle by fire with his book 4:10-4:15
· C/U of billy as he looks at the book before throwing it into the fire 4:15-4:20
· C/U of the book being thrown into the fire 4:20-4:25
· C/U of billy he walks out of shot after a few seconds as the bottle disappears into emptiness
· as the camera zooms and cuts of to a black screen. 4:25-4:30

6. Film Extra or Reshoots, Tuesday-
This is a just in case we missed anything or need to reshoot. This will take place after school
at, 3:00 to 5:00.

7. Production Schedule - Editing
Scene 1 - School scene, Wednesday
This will be used to transfer the footage filmed on Tuesday and put it on the computer ready
for editing. This will be done from 3:00 and should take one hour to transfer lasting until 4:00.
The editing will also take place after the transfer has been done. The footage shot will be put
together awaiting for other footage to piece together the whole film. This will take place from,
4:00 to 5:30.
Scene 2 - House Scene, Monday
The footage shot on Friday will be transferred to the computer ready to be edited. This will
take place from, 3:00 to 4:00.
The editing for this scene/footage will happen after footage is copied over and will take place
from 4:00 to 5:00.
Scene 3 - Park scene. Wednesday
This day will be used to transfer the footage filmed on Tuesday and put it on the computer
ready for editing. This will be done from 3:00 to 4:00
The editing will also take place after the transfer has been done. This will take place from,
4:00 to 5:30.
Scene 4 - Woods scene, Monday
This day will be used to transfer the footage filmed on Friday and put it on the computer
ready for editing. This will be done from 3:00 to 4:00
The editing will also take place after the transfer has been done. This will take place from,
4:00 to 5:30.
Editing Film, Tuesday
The film will be edited with all the footage already transferred and partly edited. This will take
place from, 12:30 to 5:30.
Editing Film, Wednesday
The edit will be carried on and this will take place from, 3:00 to 5:30.
Editing Film, Friday

8. Any extra footage shot will be transferred to the computer ready to edit. This will be done
from 9:30 to 10:00
The films edit will carry on. This will take place from, 10:00 to 11:30.
The edit will then take place after school as well and this is from 3:00 to 5:00.

9. How done what?
M. Waseem = Editing Schedule
B. Tocque = Scene 1 and Scene 2
B. Mundy = Scene 4 and Scene 3*