My Pre-Production Evaluation

For this project, pre- production was quite extensive, first of all we decided on a script, which Rose wrote the first draft of. After this draft, I came up with some quick character designs which would enable us to decide what look we were looking for, when looking for actors. These designs included not only the look of the actors we were looking for as well as costume design that we were aiming for.

 After this I organized an audition for the two main roles, I did this by putting out an advertisement for the roles on multiple sites including, Star Now, CastingCallPro and FameStreet. I contacted all that had replied to the advertisements with information on how to get to the green screen room in university (our audition location), from giving them bus routes, maps and train times.

After our first audition we had found our lead female actress, but were still searching for someone to fill our male role. For this I decided to look through the profiles of the male actors in the area on CastingCallPro and decided on a few actors, which would be suitable for the role, I decided this by looking at their show reels. Through this we got our male actor. This process made our production start a few weeks later than we had planned on.

The next part of our pre- production process was too find locations, we searched online for art galleries within the Stafford area, through this we found the Shire Hall Gallery, Rose rang up and organized a meeting where we would explain our idea and how long it would take to the owner.

After we got this location, I redrafted the script to work with the location and the atmosphere. This included changing the costume design, I came up with some new pre-visualisation material for this, through creating mood boards and new character designs that included our actors.

Through the whole pre-production process I continued to be the sole contact for our male actor, keeping him updated on what was happening through email, sending him maps to the locations and giving him car parking suggestions.

I organized and booked out the equipment we needed for shooting each day and did risk assessments for each day taking into consideration our locations. I then also filled in all the location and actor release forms so they could be signed, securing them in place for filming.

Overall, I believe the pre-production process went well, with a few troubles with getting a male actor at the audition, causing production to be held up by a few weeks, but I think we handled it well. This all enabled our production process to go pretty smoothly.