Production Meeting 1: 19th January 2012

Today I had my first meeting with my production partner Natalia. Natalia and I worked on a film project together last year, and our partnership was successful.

The aim of our meeting today was just to discuss the initial ideas we had for our individual projects this year, and come up with a successful and organised production schedule. Natalia and I both felt that we needed to work on a tight schedule in order to successfully split our time effectively over all elements of the production process.

Natalia wants to create a scripted film which is something neither of us has done before, however, I am currently acting in a scripted film for another student project so have been able to get an idea of the kind of work she will need to put in, and will hopefully be able to offer some advice based on what I've seen.

Today we had a very broad discussion as neither of our film storylines are fully formed yet. Following this we have each come up with a to do list of things to complete before our next meeting which we are aiming to have in a week's time.

To Do List:

1. Begin researching the subject matter addressed in the film, and any practical film techniques or theories that may be useful.
2. Complete/construct a plot.
3. Create character profiles for the characters within the film.
4. Write a rough draft of a script - if and where needed.
5. Begin storyboarding.

We also came up with a rough production plan based on the 15 weeks we have from the date of this meeting till our hand in date on 1st May 2012:

23rd January - 13th February 2012: Pre-Production.

• Planning, storyboarding, scripting, finding actors, location hunts, risk assessment forms etc.

13th  - 20th February 2012: Practice Shoot.

• Practise film in the selected locations to see what works and what doesn't.
• Also experimentation in post-production to find out whether anything needs to be filmed in a certain way in order to master a desired effect when editing.

20th - 12th March 2012: Filming.

• 3 weeks set aside for all the filming needed.

12th March - 9th April 2012: Editing.

• 4 weeks set aside for all the editing needed.

9th - 16th April 2012: 'If anything goes wrong' week.

• A week set aside in case anything goes wrong, needs re-doing etc.

16th - 23rd April 2012: Sound Edit.

• A week set aside soley to work with the sound.

23rd April - 1st May 2012: Finishing Project.

• Time for exporting project before uploading it to the internet, or burning it onto DVD.