Main Post 8 Pre-Production Documentation

Before we began looking for a location to film, we came up with a mise-en-scene design for us to follow. This shows a mixture of different pictures that highlight specific parts in the mise-en-scene that we want show. The picture below shows this.

As a group we produced a location recce of the bedroom that Sophie and Paige would be in whilst shooting them in the scene, this location recce show’s what lighting there is in the room and how the room’s laid out. It is also helpful for later when we did the risk assessment.
Below is a copy of our group’s location recce of the bedroom Sophie and Paige are in at the beginning of Behind Blue Eyes.

As well as planning what the set would look like with the pictures from above, we also put together what we wanted the props and costumes to be and look like. The costumes are what Sophie, Paige and Alan would be wearing and the props are mainly what we would be using to pan over at the beginning of the opening sequence.

We produced a  shot list for the opening sequence of Behind Blue Eyes, this simply shows the location of the shot, the scene the shots in and a description of the shot itself. Having this shot list means we can refer back to it whilst filming all the different shots. Below is a copy of our groups shot list of the opening sequence to Behind Blue Eyes

The script tells us who says what and the order in which the lines are said. This script contains the voice overs said by the male in the opening sequence as well. Below is a copy of our group's script of the opening sequence to Behind Blue Eyes

We produced a storyboard to illustrate each shot in each scene, along with the description it had a visual drawing of what the shot would look like and it also highlighted the character movement, length of and where the shot would be.

We carried out a risk assessment on the locations we are going to use, this shows the potential risks throughout filming, risks that could injure somebody or a piece of equipment. Below is a copy of our groups risk assessment, highlighting the risks in each scene and a way of avoiding this risk.

In order to get our opening sequence filmed, we created a shooting schedule of when we were all free and the equipment was free in order to get the opening sequence shot. Our groups shooting schedule was over two days and describes what scenes will be filmed and at what time we would film them, it is show below.