Pre-Production paperwork

Initial idea post (proposal)- For our coursework we were required to create a short 90 second short film for DepicT which allows people no matter the budget to create their short film with any meaning which they place on their website and is added to their end of year composition. this allows people to show off their abilities as film makers and possibly show inspiration to other aspiring creators to make good films. For our work we came up with the idea of creating a comedy short film as watching some of the previous DepicT films from other years and seeing how they could create a comical and meaning short film. we went through a good number of ideas but we finally decided to create a over dramatic short film about someone having a fight with a vending machine as we saw a similar idea on YouTube. We decided to stick with idea as fighting with an inanimate object was a funny idea to all of us.      

Shot list- For the shot list we made about 13-14 different shot ideas in total all in order of what we would do. In the list we included certain distances and camera angles that we would use during the filming for example our establishing shot started with a long shot as myself walked into frame towards the vending machine which then cut to our second shot which was on our list which was a close up of me putting money into the vending machine. Further on the list we had shots. we had a lot more ideas within our storyboard that we wanted to include such as someone using a gun against the vending machine and adding more shots with different angles but because we could only have the film around 90 seconds long we decided to cut down on most of the less important shots and stick with more important story shots.

Storyboard- For our storyboard we decided to go towards a comical story for our short film so most of the drawing's and story ideas was centred towards  trying to be funny for example the main plot of our short film was someone trying to get a drink from a vending machine and the machine did not work, so we decided to turn it into a over dramatic fight scene and we would also included other people and also "summon" someone to help fight the vending machine. our film didn't really have a message to it as we were more centred towards making a more comical film and we thought that we would be better creating the film if we didn't focus on creating a narrative and stick to making a more ridiculous and comedy focused short film.

Risk Assessment- For our risk assessment we didn't really have a lot of risks as we were not using any props and everything was filmed within college grounds or the park just outside. some of our risks were things such as crossing the road, poor weather conditions (slippery roads) and and the vending machine as we would have to "fight" it we had to make sure we don't overdo anything and end up hurt.

Release for talent- Everyone that acted within our film had to fill in a release for talent form which allows the distributor to publish the short film with our permission release talent forms also allows the actors to not worry about getting cold feet as the form will protect you from any legal risk. as i was also under the age of 18 i was required to get a parent or guardian's signature which also allows the distributor to publish the film with their permission