You can find all the deadlines we are working towards here. Next week, you have to submit a rough cut for your thriller opening, so it's essential you go out filming as quickly as possible. aim to get 60% of your filming finished this week as a minimum. This ensures that if/when something goes wrong, you can do something about it!
You might not be filming every lesson, especially if you're relying heavily on a particular location, so here are a list of things you can do.
Pre-production tasks
- Location scouting (online or in person)
- Sourcing props
- Drafting timetables
- Contacting actors (working with someone outside of the group is risky. You Need to make sure that they're reliable)
- Sourcing sound effects (freesound.org is great for this, so make an account today)
- Recording atmos
- Filling out booking sheets (get in early with equipment, or you won't get what you want!)
- Finish storyboards (we would rather you do these at home, but if you're discussing your opening as you're working on these and you've already 100% organised your next shooting day, then this would be a good idea)
- Swapping contact details (phone numbers, home phones, Twitter, Facebook...)
- Composiong soundtrack (or if you're less musically minded, finding an appropriate soundtrack on freesound.org)
- Designing titles (take a look at this post for inspiration)
- Booking the studio (again, get in really early!)
Booking equipment
The rules are as follows:
- You get three overnight bookings. These have to be claimed at the end of the day (16:10) and bought back the first thing the next day.
- You can swap two overnights for a weekend booking. Therefore that makes one weekend booking and one overnight.
- Book early, and don't expect to rock up on the day and get a camera. Demand is high!