Week 3 Homework and Prep: Webserial Production Requirements Report & Pre-production Docs

Objective: to write a pre-production report on the requirements for your webisode

Write up a report 700 words documenting the requirements for your webisode pilot production, including the plans in place to ensure the project is delivered to deadline 

• What is required (ie what is needed)?
• What procedures, costs or activity is involved? 
• How do Production Managers organise and source what is required? 

Use your class worksheet notes & your groups Google Doc collaboration that I set as cover work on Friday on what they discovered about the process of organising a webisode production

You need to report on the pre-production requirements for funding, sourcing, scheduling, and organising as if you were the Production Manager, covering each of the following headings:

A. Type of Production: Its a web-serial

B. Finance: 

• sources of finance; Kick starter, BFI, Private finance, Investors, National Lottery 
• Budget requirements, equipment, transport, talent (cast/actors), crew (production), materials, facility hire (studio or edit suite)

C. Time: 

• Schedules & deadlines (importance of in the industry and production scheduling - release or broadcast deadline and insurance), what needs to be scheduled during the Pre-production, Production & Post-production stages
• availability of equipment (booking system in college), 
• availability of personnel (call sheets how you plan to organise your crew and cast)

D. Crew and Personnel: 

• size of team (no budget production vs VGHS) & roles, 
• skills and experience; resourcing (Mandy.com); availability; costs (Union rate cards vs no budget)

E. Facilities

• production equipment (kit list cams, lights, gels, reflectors, lenses, tripods, dolly, stabilisers), 
• post-production equipment (edit suite, final cut x) 
• availability & costs (hire of kit and edit suite in industry vs college resources)

F. Materials 

• sound library materials (what is copyright free music or sound effects and how you would source this vs costs for paying for clearance)
• costs & clearances (how much to use non-original materials and where from?)

G. Contributors

• talent (cast actors and extras sourcing these from actor websites, magazines or agencies)

H. Locations: 

• identification; (scouting, resources to find suitable locations and permissions) 
• recces (on site visual inspection report) 
• limitations and risks: distance, access (able to transport crew and equipment to site, cost (what do owners charge for filming), weather & lighting, background sound, public usage

I. Codes of practice and regulation: 

• clearances, Mechanical Copyright Protection Society-Performing Rights Society Alliance (MCPS-PRS),
• location permissions; (local council - Kent film licence)
• legal, eg copyright (music, archive or stock footage, using pre-existing intellectual property), 
• health and safety; (having police aware of filming, risk assessments)
• insurance, (public liability insurance)
• regulatory bodies:
• British Board of Film Classification (BBFC); (yours is a web-broadcast compared to cinema or UK territory release/broadcast)
• trade unions:Producers’ Alliance for Cinema and Television (PACT), Broadcasting Entertainment, Cinematograph and Theatre Union (BECTU) (rate cards and working conditions, overtime etc)

Example 1:

https://omardar.wordpress.com/unit-1-pre-production-techniques-for-the-creative-media-industries-2/

Example 2:

http://mabintybangura.blogspot.co.uk/2013/03/unit-1-assignment-1-pre-production.html

Mark scheme and content to cover:

http://www.slideshare.net/mobile/RedDreamsJosh/pre-production-techniques-40308642 

Resources:

Exemplar Btec Pre Production report

http://mabintybangura.blogspot.co.uk/2013/03/unit-1-assignment-1-pre-production.html 

http://darlacatproductions.com/uploads/3/0/4/8/3048269/how_to_produce_your_own_web_series_on_nearly_a_zero_budget_e-book.pdf 

http://www.bbc.co.uk/filmnetwork/filmmaking/guide/production/links-production 

http://www.bbc.co.uk/filmnetwork/filmmaking/guide/before-you-start/funding 

http://applications.creativeengland.co.uk/assets/public/resource/19.pdf 

http://www.rocketjump.com/blog/how-much-webseries-cost 

http://www.bbc.co.uk/filmnetwork/filmmaking/guide/production/budget-and-schedule#budget

http://www.bbc.co.uk/filmnetwork/filmmaking/guide/production/cast-and-crew#roles 

http://www.pasadena.edu/files/syllabi/lmjang_20857.pdf  

http://www.quora.com/What-equipment-crew-is-needed-for-a-low-budget-film

http://preproduction.4filmmaking.com/film-financing.html

http://www.bbc.co.uk/filmnetwork/filmmaking/guide/production/equipment 

http://www.kitmondo.com/used-broadcast-equipment 

Prep work:

Task 2: complete your pre-production documents, upload them to slideshare and embed into your blogs.

Treatment 

Script

Storyboard (full 3 minutes) 

Shooting schedule

Recce and permissions