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: 9/10/2017
Monday Tuesday Wedne Thursday Friday Saturday Sunday
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Film Film Film Edit Start Edit Refilm Edit Edit
Finding Recording Finding to edit the Second Refilm the
found some of stills for first 2:30 of 2:30 of parts that remaining
footage the voice voice production production are parts
for intro recording overs needed
9:00 9:00 10:00 9:00 14:00 10:10 10:00 11:00
14:00, 14:00, 13:00, Henley 13:30 11:00 At 12:00
Henley Henley Henley College Henley home At home
College College Colleg College
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Henry Henry Henry Henry Henry Henry Henry

Script

Cinematography documentary

Open the documentary with a significant clip that shows off a

montage of some of the most important and recognisable moments
in cinematography.

Title card reads

Cinematography a brief documentary

Title card reads

History of cinematography

NARRATOR
"No one person invented cinema. However, in 1891 the Edison
Company in the USA successfully demonstrated a prototype of
the Kinetoscope, which enabled one person at a time to view
moving pictures. The first to present projected moving
pictures to a paying audience (i.e. cinema) were the Lumiere
Brothers in December 1895 in Paris."
I narrate over images of the kinetoscopes.
"At first, films were very short, sometimes only a few minutes
or less. They were shown at fairgrounds and music halls or
anywhere a screen could be set up and a room darkened.
Subjects included local scenes and activities, views of
foreign lands, short comedies and events considered
newsworthy. The films were accompanied by lecturers, music and
a lot of audience participationalthough they did not have
synchronised dialogue they were not silent as they are
sometimes described."

Title card reads

Significant moments
 Videos are shown what are examples of work with different
filming styles are.
King Kong starts to play on screen.

Narrator
King Kong was one of the first films to use both live action
and stop motion. For the time this was filmed in, this was one
of the best forms of visual effects as well.

King Kong clip ends

Jason and the Argonauts clip begins

Narrator
Jason and the Argonauts was also a great example of stop
motion mixing with living actors as in this scene you can see
the skeletons fight with the actor and interact as if it was
all happening on set.

Jason and the Argonauts clip ends

Hard-core Henry clip begins

Narrator
Hard-core Henry is a film that was shot completely using a
Go-Pro. This was the first film to do so and has shown the
film industry that filming using a go pro is a good way to
tell the story of the film.

Hard-core Henry clip ends

Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom clip begins

Narrator
Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom starting scene uses a
long take which is where throughout the entire of the first
scene the camera does not cut to another shot until the scene
finishes
 Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom clip ends

Title card reads

Change in technology

Narrator speaks overs pictures of the first film camera.

Narrator
In 1912 Bell & Howell introduces the first all-metal movie
camera, the 2709 standard 35-mm after mildrew and termites
destroy the wood and leather camera of husband and wife
filmmakers Martin and Osa Johnson as they travel through
Africa.

Narrator speaks over pictures of the red dragon camera.

Narrator
The red dragon camera is on all the best cameras that can be
bought and is able to film in 6K quality what is one of, if
not the best quality that any cinematographer can film in.

Title card reads

Pioneers

Narrator

In 1895, Thomas Alva Edison (1847 - 1931) - "Early this

year Edison promotes what he calls his Kinetophones. Edison
uses rubber tubes to connect the viewer of
the Kinetoscope to the Phonograph. Viewers of the peepshow
can listen to recorded music as they watch the film
advance. Although not required, there is no
synchronization."

Showing pictures of the pioneers and there cameras.

 Narrator

"In 1900, Moy and Bastie started a company in England in

1895 manufacturing circuit breakers. In 1896 they had
met Robert Paul and were making items for the film
industry. They made their first camera in 1900, with 400
foot external magazines, placed on the top of the
camera."

Title card reads

Conclusion

Narrator
Overall cinematography is one, if not the most important
parts of the media industry. It has been said that visuals
makes up 90% of film, which in itself shows the importance of
it.

THE END
Downloaded Footage
Provide links and descriptions of the footage you have
downloaded for your documentary.

Link Description

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yvD3X3RcK3Y&t=43s Video from

original
King Kong
film
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7_bVVN3nWDs Hardcore
Henry (go-
pro)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pF_Fi7x93PY Jason and
the
Argonauts
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OIVxq2Vg7U0 Long cut
Indiana
Jones
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xGNvDVKOxCk&t=89s Avatar
Contingency Plan

The only problem that I can experience when recording is if my microphone

breaks or gets damaged means that the microphone will make the audio
sound wrong/weird so I will have a back up microphone in case something
goes wrong.

Another error that can happen is when it gets to the editing phase of the
production a problem that can occur is when the software that you are using
unexpectedly crashes causing you to loose work that you have done. A way to
get around is to save your work constantly so in the event that this happens you
do not lose too much work.
A problem that can occur is when you go to export and render the production
the chosen setting are incorrect. This is done by not knowing the correct setting
so you can either tweak the setting to find the right render or ask someone for
what they believe. You can also use the recommended settings.