Week 4 - Moving forward with Pre-Production

Once I had completed my pitch I stayed around college to see how other students pitch went. I told some members of the course that I received good feedback which led onto me explaining what I wanted to do for my FMP. After talking to some students I decided to ask a couple if they wouldn’t mind reading my script and give me feedback, everyone thought it were brilliant. Feeling incredibly proud of myself, I decided to officially begin my production by asking who would care to be involved with my production. I have already got Jordan Gott on my crew; I wanted to work with him because I believe we both have a similar taste in drama’s and would be able to communicate to a professional standard. Whilst showing Emily McGregor and Becky Gill my script they kept asking questions and creating possible scenarios for the characters and narrative. Later that night they gave me an idea to improve both elements which truly excited me, from this and previous projects I have worked with them Ii decided to ask if they would be willing to be part of my crew. I am aware they are both busy with their own FMP’s but I decided to ask anyway.

Below is a screenshot of our short conversation.

Continuing with our Facebook conversation, they made it clear that they would love to be producers. Helping gathering cast and helping with development which I have no issue with it as long as I can have the final decision seeing as at this moment in time this is my project.

Also whilst at college, going over my script, the majority were very persistent on me using people in the actual  acting industry as my script is so well executed  and shouldn’t be let down by people not in the acting profession.A site that has been used before within our class is http://www.starnow.co.uk, so I briefly looked through the possibilities out there, thinking feasibility. I had to narrow down the range of distance that I could look for these actors, so I first wrote out a list of acceptable areas to look; put in table, location & ETD.

Location	Route	Miles	Estimate Time Distance
Blackburn	-----	---	---
Blackpool	M55	26.5	38 mins
Bolton	A666	12.9	31 mins
Bradford	M65	39.6	1 hour 6 mins
Crewe	M6	60.7	1 hour 12 mins
Halifax	A646	32.3	1 hour 1 min
Huddersfield	M62	48.0	59 mins
Lancaster	M6	29.2	40 mins
Leeds	M62	62.8	1 hour 13 mins
Liverpool	M6 and M58	41.0	57 mins
Manchester	M61	33.3	46 mins
Oldham	A56 and M66	33.0	45 mins
Preston	Preston New Rd/A677 and A59	10.0	22 mins
Stockport	M61 and M60	42.5	50 mins
Warrington	M6	34.5	47 mins
Wigan	M6	24.8	36 mins

 

Following my prep plan from my pitch, I asked the media technician if I could borrow the camera equipment so that I could practice some shots which I have concern with. Whilst booking out the equipment I was sharing a conversation with our technician and he asked what shots I was going for and I went on to explain. One that I had discussed with the technician, he provided feedback for. The technician explained that it was very difficult to achieve and I should spend more time practising that shot. The shot is a close up of an eye in two different locations, I have to work on that as there is no obvious cut and I have to keep in mind lighting and positioning.

I will be providing screenshot’s of this once I have begun practicing but that won’t be until I finalise the re-recce of my final locations. Hopefully that will be sometime next week.