Pre-production involves crucial planning requirements like financing, timescales, equipment, locations, personnel, and legal/regulatory compliance. Financing is needed to pay for costs and requires securing funding sources like private investors or public grants. Thorough planning of timescales and equipment availability is also important to efficiently execute filming on schedule and achieve the intended production quality. Locations, personnel such as makeup artists, and additional materials like props also require consideration during pre-production. The purposes of pre-production include ensuring legal and regulatory adherence, health and safety of cast and crew, improving the project through feedback, and facilitating information sharing across the production team.

1. Unit 4: Pre-Production Portfolio
Requirements of Pre-Production
pre-production requirements
Financing.
Financing is crucial to pre producing a film as everything you need to make a good quality
film, costs. Financing is important as it is plays a large part in pre-production. It is needed to
pay for cast and crew members to be a part of your film, equipment also needs to be played
for. Financing is also important because it is something that needs to be taken into
consideration to plan for the film, if not planned out well, some issues like nobody investing
in your film could be apparent. Also, financing is needed to care for the cast and crew
members, this is done by catering. money is needed for food and drink. Private funding in
pre-production is from investors from production companies or producers. a way to privately
fund your film to create a pitch for your film and prove to the producers why it is a good idea
to invest in your film with private funding, if they like your pitch, and want to invest on your
film, they can offer you a higher budget. they may even help to produce some of the film.
However, the downside of private funding is that you could not, potentially, impress the
producers and they may not help you with your film and not invest. Another negative result
of private funding, producers which do want to help you with the production of the film, will
want a certain percentage of the earning. Looking at this further, if your film doesn’t meet
the expected standard for your audience, you may not get the money you expected to get for
the film, this then has an impact on the percentage of money the producers wanted. This
could then cause conflict as they would demand their share of the money. Public funding
consists of public funding agencies. these can be found from tax’s. this is found my things we
donate to ourselves on a day to day basis, for example, the national lottery. We invest our
money weekly into the national lottery, hoping we will win, and many are addicted to doing
this and we are constantly giving money without actually realizing here the money is going.
Another place where our public funding is found is big company producers like BBC, Film4,
Channel 4 and more. public funding people who are new to film production to seek help and
give them a rough budget of what they should be spending on their film. However, there isn’t
exactly a large amount of money with that budget, as it is not the whole of the money that
has been donated to film making, there is only a certain percentage of money available for
you to use for your production. your finished product may not be as a strong quality you
originally planned for.
Timescales.
Timescales are vital when it comes to producing a film. This consists of a lot of planning. To
work on a specific part of the film, without planning, the film won’t have a flow and will make
the film production 10 times harder. It will benefit you to have a plan so when it
comes to the day when you are filming a scene, it will save time and be less stressful. You
have to meet a deadline when producing your film, and if you don’t plan the production of
your film, you won’t meet the deadline. The role of time scales depends on your planning,
because if you expected something to take X amount of time, and do not plan towards that,
your filming wont expect your expectations
Equipment and Availability Equipment

2. This is very important because it allows you to reach the standard of filming you want. The
equipment consists of cameras, microphones, locations are also a key part of this. You need
to think about where you are going to film and if it suits the meaning and genre of the film.
you need to think about how long you are going to hire/loan the equipment for also, this is
helped by planning. equipment can really benefit you, as if you use the right equipment, it
can give your film high quality productions and help producers be interested in your product.
Locations
This is very important in creating a film, this is because the locations help to set the mood of
the genre of the film. When planning your film, you need to think about where the location is
going to be for certain scenes. What will benefit your film when you think about locations, is
thinking about how you can have the location to have an impact on the audience. Evaluating
this further, an example of a location impacting the audience would be horror films, a
haunted mansion in the middle of nowhere, creates an intimidating spooky atmosphere for
the audience. Locations are important because they also help indicate what genre the film is.
For example, the horror cliché scene, a haunted mansion in the middle of nowhere. when
you see that location, your automatic thought is that the film is horror. However, looking at
the negatives, locations can be complicated to use as you need permission to use the
locations you want. Also, there has to be nobody walking around or any traffic, for example, if
say you wanted a city location. There may be a certain timescale to shooting in particular
locations. Personnel You may need to hire specialist crews for the production of the film. This
could be make-up artists or stunt doubles. make-up artists are important because if the
make-up was poor, you could potentially get bad reviews. Also, the lighting used for the
filming may affect how the colour of your face is presented on camera, so using a good
make-up artist will help the camera pick up the right colours for your face.
Stunt crews
Stunt crews may be just as important as the main actors/actresses’ depending on the film’s
needs, the producers of the film may not want to risk potential injuries to the actors and
actresses because they are not professionals at doing major stunts.
Lawyers
Lawyers also are important as they consult with the film’s producers and actors to either help
write up a fair contract for an actor so they can ensure
the actor will do the work that is required. Lawyers may also help any other issues that may
occur during the process of your film. Location managers are vital as their job consist of
researching and organizing permission to locations you want to use for your scenes. Not only
that. They need to manage cast, crew and filming members all simultaneously and this must
all be completed in the time limit they have been given.
Additional materials
Some additional materials would you need to consider in pre-production would be the use of
props. Props help, basically set the scene. I believe props are very important in producing a
film because for example, if the scene was in hospital, and there were couches and things
you would find in a home, the audience wouldn’t understand where the setting is and it
would be a poor use of mise en scene. When making a high quality film, you need to make
the film look like someone’s day to day life, by using props helps do this as it almost brings

3. the film to life and in doing this some of the audience can relate to the characters, by the
scene. An example of this again, would be a hospital, people who are potentially doctors can
relate to the film.
Codes of practiceand regulations
Codes of practice and regulations are all about doing things legally. It is vital to pre-
production. Codes of practice and regulations is made up of health and safety procedures.
This is so if there are any accidents in the process of making the film, there is the less chance
of you being took to court, in worse cases for example. It is important that you have health
and safety procedures in case of an incident. You need this for everything in your film. Its
thinking about the risks and safety of your crew. If you do not take health and safety in to
your film making, and someone maybe even die from your cast and crew, you would be
facing court and sued thousands, potentially millions. So with doing these health and safety
procedures, it basically helps keep everybody safe and always make sure they have contracts,
this can top and legal issues in the future. Another example of vital codes of practice is
obtaining permissions regarding copyright materials. Evaluating on this further, of you were
to take a soundtrack form a music artist, and use it on your film, without getting permission
from them, you could be fined and taken to court for copyright. so it is really important you
get the correct permission to use other people’s work in your film. Another important role is
the trade unions. Their job is to make sure that the employees who are hired to help create
this film are being treated correctly and aren’t working overtime and not enough time in
their breaks.
The Film Proposal
The film proposal is a visual representation of how your film is going to look, your vision as a
completed end-product. You use it to excite key crew and cast to come onboard your project.
It is used to come up with some ideas for a project. After a proposal is finished then the script
of production will be worked on. proposals are important as it helps you get the idea to shoot
the movie. Scripting: master scene script Master scene scripts are required by the motion
picture industry for screenplays before they are greenlit for production. Master scenes are
more straight forward and more simple to read unlike shooting scene. this helps the reader
follow the story clearly and it is important that the audience know and understand the story.
master scene scripts are split into scene headings, narrative description and dialogue blocks.
scripting: shooting script These scripts are used when producing a film, they obtain
information that is for the directors as if it is helpful for them. Shooting scripts do contrast
from master scene scripts as master scene scripts are more of a selling tool and shooting
scripts are a production tool.
Storyboarding
Storyboarding is pretty much a plan of your film. It helps the cast can crew members to know
what Is coming next so they can prepare. It is a bunch of images in chronological order to
show different scenes and information underneath to describe what the scene is and the
duration, shot no etc. storyboarding is important as if it is not complete, your idea for the
film will not make sense and as a result of this, big film producers may not want to invest in
your film. Storyboarding is also important in pre-production as it helps visualize each scene.
Story boards can help reduce wasted time as it

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Functions of pre-production
The function for pre-production is mainly, I think, for feedback people can give towards your
film. This benefits you as a film producer as it means you can improve your film and this can
lead to a better reaction when the film is released.
in pre-production you could have collaborations, this is beneficial to you as if say, for
example, you collaborate with a popular singer, it will create big publicity for your film and
build a bigger audience and can make your film more popular. I think pre-production is
important because it isn’t the official film, if something doesn’t seem right, it can be
improved Purpose of pre-production One of the reasons that media companies undertake
pre-production work is to make sure that what they are planning to produce adheres to the
relevant practice, laws and regulation that govern and control their industry. Legal issues also
take place in pre-production. An example of this is public liability, this is another legal
requirement for companies and organisations who are involved in creative media production,
particularly when they are recording on locations where members of the public may be at
risk from the production activities. Health and safety is put in place or he obvious safety of
the cast and crew members. Sharing information is also a purpose of pre-production. Film
production often include a large list of cast and crew involvement. Effective pre-production
and thorough and organized records allow sharing of information across relevant parties
effectively, to ensure all involved are working together efficiently.