Film Organisation of Locations, Actors etc

In preparation of filming our product during organisation we established what locations we will be filming in for each scene. Our short film in set in five locations, house, small roads, main road, park entrance and finally secluded forest. our location were filmed mostly in the day except the secluded forest location which needed darkness for drama.

Once we were settled and established what setting we will be filming in we had to arrange what actors we would be using and what characters they would be playing. At first we thought it be best if we outsourced actors (Outside our group) so we can focus on factors behind the characters. However due to conflicting agendas and lack of availability plus the unsuccessful recruitment of replacement actors we had to act the roles ourselves. luckily our storyline and storyboard didn't involve both of us being in the same shot at once so mostly one of us could be behind the camera.

We then using our storyline and storyboard as a guide we had to produce scene plans for each scene so that we were organised and focus on what we wanted to do when it came to filming. Once we had finished our advanced production planning we had to organise permission to use to music track Massive Attack - Teardrop which we wanted to add to our film at a later date, which involved writing a letter of notification to the copyright holder.