Planning and Pre-Production

Unit 12: Specialism Documentary

Contents

o Production Schedule
o List of questions for each interviewee
o Script
o Props List
o Location Recces
o List of items downloaded with references
o Clearances and Confirmations
o Contingency Plan
Production Schedule
Please include location, time of film, what you are filming and teams members
including actors

Date: 25th - 1st

Monday Tuesday Wednes Thursday Friday Saturday Sunday
Planning Planning Planning Planning Planning Planning Planning

Date: 2nd - 8th

Monday Tuesday Wednes Thursday Friday Sat Sunday
Pre Pre Audio edit Unav Una ///////
production produc recording ailable vailable
tion

Date:9th 15th
Monday Tuesday Wednes Thursday Friday Saturday Sunday
Filming Filming edit edit Finish eval eval
interview b-roll edit
and
interview
List of Questions for Interviewees

Interviewee 1
Sarah Wilson
- Qn 1) Why is an editors role important?
- Qn 2) How can different editing techniques
effect the feel of a film?
- Qn 3) Do you think its true that the best editing
goes unnoticed?
- Qn 4) How has the development of technology
effected the development of editing
techniques?

Script
Narration Visual Sound
LEO audio Background
Opening title music
enter LOUD

BRoll
of editing
Voiceover
QUIETER
Editing as an art is very
important to the film
industry. When film was first
about, films ran as long as
the tape, and were static
shots. Over the years film Old footage of
has changed as editors have films
created and developed the
different editing techniques.
Newer footage
One editor who changed the
game of editing is film Picture of subject
editor Michael Kahn.

Kahn edited Schindlers

List as well as many other Other films on
memorable films screen Sound
effects
He used parallel editing to gun shots
present the difference
between the horrors of the Schindler list
ghettos and camps, and the footage
luxury of the Nazis.

Here you can see a rich

jewish man and his wife being
forced out of there luxury
home and into a dirty ghetto
full of other people from all
different backgrounds. This
scene is interwove with the
shots of Schindler moving
into that same home, lying The bit of the
down on the freshly made bed scene where Mute music
and saying: Schindler says
:it doesnt get
better than this.

The Godfather and godfather Unmute

part 2 especially are good Godfather clips
examples of parallel editing.
They both have continuous
action editing in them, but
one parallel editing scene
stands out. Towards the end - example that On screen
of the first film, a baptism I talk about effect
scene is cut with the sound
assassination of multiple mob
leaders. This is a very Mute
effective way of showing the
two lives that the lead
character lives. Unmute
Kennington Where
There are various styles of It Started music
video editing including video example
editing to the beat, which is
commonly used in music
videos. The use of cutting to
the beat is very gripping. Mute
 As well as this technique Bank robbery
being used in music videos it scene 1 Baby
is also used in film Driver (2017)
although not as much. A good
example of a recent film
using this technique is baby
driver, edited by Paul
Machliss and Jonathon Amos.
As you can see this sequence
of film is edited to the
musics drum beat and other
sound effects like the
engines rev.

With the development of Fade in

technology and technique have Technology new music
come such major advancements progression
that what seemed to be videos.
impossible even 20 years ago
is now old news.

In the late 1800s the film

camera was invented. It Detailed picture
used a long strip of of film camera
photographic negatives from 1800s.
called film stock. It
rapidly exposed one
image at a time in Old projector
sequence. These images video. Projector
could then be rapidly reel sound
played back through a effect
projector to create the
illusion of motion.

The first films looked like

stage plays - all of the a terrible night
action took place over film clips
one continuous
stationary shot.

As years went by, artists

like Georges Melies Photograph of
realised they could play Georges Melies
the film back at
different speeds and in
different sequences. Clip from trip to
Melies discovered he the moon.
could have film jump
forward in time to make
 objects appear or
disappear.
In 1900 George Albert Smith
created As seen through
a telescope. This was as seen through a
significant because it telescope
was one of the first
films to put two shots
together in sequence.
The idea was that those
two shots would have a
logical connection in
the viewers mind known
as juxta position.

This meant instead of

recording an entire
movie in strict
chronological order
scenes could be shot at STRICT
different times and in CHRONOLOGICAL
different locations, and ORDER (TEXT)
then assembled later in //
the process that became Clock animation Animation
known as editing.

-Short editing Enter new

sequence- soundtrack

Quieter
Nowadays, accessing video Images of editing
editing software is as easy. timeline
If you have a computer with
decent power then it pretty Image of computer
much means you can edit. This
means it is used by a wide
range of people from all over Online video
the planet. As well as the playlist
programs being used for screenshot
feature length films, they
are also used for online YouTube logo
videos created by anyone on
platforms such as YouTube. Planet turning
And its the internet thats
had the biggest impact on Video of editor
editing style, as we consume editing.
ever- increasing quantities
of content with ever- Meme
shortening attention spans.
Editing nowadays has to be Quick editing
slicker and quicker. compilation
 Outro Title Quick fade
out

You need Citizen Kane and the God father in there as examples of
good editing (you can add fight club if you want)

Equipment List

Item Item Description Who uses it When it is used

Camera Canon 600D Me Interviews and

B roll.

Microphone Rode Videomic Me Interviews, b

roll and
voiceover

Tripod Manfrotto Tripod Me Interviews and

b roll.

Location Recce
Please produce a location recce for EVERY location used

+ Type of room/area:
Bedroom

Location Address:

7 western road

Henley
Lighting Information: Solutions:
Natural light can compromise shots Put blinds down and use controlled light

Sound Information: Solutions:

Quiet except from occupants of the Tell people in house to be quiet whilst
house talking etc recording

Power Information: Solutions:

Multiple power sockets

Hazards: Solutions:
Tripping/slipping over on things Move objects from the floor
Downloaded Footage
Provide links and descriptions of the footage you have
downloaded for your documentary.

Link Description

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MTjAjMRIyOU Schindlers list

scene for b roll.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4eP49zRmMFM Deadpool
highway scene
,broll
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kSQqv2UuvC0 The godfather
restaurant
shooting scene
broll.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zXgTFBIwDCc A trip to the moon

(1902)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vUIY2vAu2r4 A terrible night

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kC8RvcJXohk As seen through a

telescope

Baby driver 6
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6XMuUVw7TOM minute clip

Battle of
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LAj1NOG18bU Chemulpo bay
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e1EVhpJTqqE Charlie Chaplin
The Firefighter

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ed-oXKDmca0 Kennington
Where It Started -
Bis X Blanco X Active
X MizOrMac (music
video)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gznn9k4X0SE
Cinema Projector
Explanation

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NSuNpiW-LwI
Clock Time Lapse
Video

Fast forward
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LxZrFiI1UZk
animation

The Godfather
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kHbQr6Xsy
Shootings/Baptism
8U&t=215s

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nr_0BRq
Interstellar Editor
T0Qg&t=97s
Lee Smith on How
to Edit a Scene
Contingency Plan
What are your plans for if something goes wrong? What back up actors,
locations and equipment do you have?
Equipment if my camera fails I have a spare one which would do well
enough. same with mic.
If my editing program plays up I will edit on another computer.

If my interview cant happen for any reason I will have the interview with
someone else pref another editor.