Pre-Production report

Pre- Production Report

To start the pre-production stage, we had a group meeting to discuss the genre on which the film would be based, we found this decision easy as we all have an interest in scary films and think that making it would be interesting and least boring to make. However there were disagreements to begin with about the content of the film and what was to happen during the beginning, but after a few more discussions we agreed on a storyline which I feel we have stuck to very well.

During the pre-production process we had various pieces of work to produce before we could actually film, these included the treatment, shot-list, storyboard etc. which are then to be posted on our blogs, and we shared the work load between the four of us and worked together when one had a problem. For example there was a problem with the treatment in the way that it was in the wrong order and we had to add shots in, but by matching it with the shot list it was corrected easily. A questionnaire is a research method we produced and asked to our target audience which meant a range of ages and genders where asked to see what they look for in a scary film, we chose to ask the people the questions rather than just hand out the questionnaires therefore the answers are more in depth and the results played a big part in the decisions we made to do with the film. The independent research we did also helped influence the choices we made, recent films like Paranormal Activity and The Blair Witch were two of the ones I chose and factors like lack of violence and blood definitely stared in our production.

The storyboard was one of the things which we struggled to produce as at one point it didn’t match the shot-list or the treatment so that had to be re-done and the pictures re-drawn. Surprisingly, the script was one part of the pre-production work we found easy to produce although none of us knew it off by heart therefore the dialogue in the film doesn’t match the script one hundred percent which is definitely a flaw because if the actors had spent more time learning the script then they would match.