The pre-production was the planning of the short film which we found the easiest. As we would be filming the film in school Jack Norton and I decided fairly quickly that the film should be about a student and teacher. As we decided this so quickly it meant that we were able to get on with the making of the storyboard a lot quicker than we would have been if it took us ages to decide what we would be filming. We knew the shots that were needed in preliminary task therefore we made sure they were in the storyboard and in the film which gave us the outline for the story.
In pre-production we instantly realised that Jack Bone would not be in for the preliminary task therefore it would have to be filmed with two of us. Therefore in pre-production we knew we would have to find another student (George) to act in the film for us. The problem that we ran into was the worry that when we were filming we had to make sure that there free periods covered the same as our media lessons so the continuity side of the editing would be better.
Our first decision was how to start the scene; we had three options which were to have Jack coming up the stairs, down the stairs or walking down the corridor. We decided to go with the corridor as it was our first time at filming we didn’t want to complicate things too much. The picking of a setting for the film was problematic because we wasn’t sure how long filming would take and whether we would still have the same classroom for our next lessons. We decided to try our best and if it did over run, then use the footage from before the entrance to the classroom and then have the match action shot of a different classroom. The continuity would not be perfect but it was the best way to do this rather then wasting a lesson.
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