Pre Production began with getting into our groups and picking the script we wanted to work with all together. We decided t go with the script for the film : The Red Cape

the films plot was based on two characters, following the narrative that one was a duper hero planning to fly and the other a friend who thought that he couldn’t

Where to go to from here we put our heads together and worked through a checklist of things that needed to be done in order to produce, shoot and edit this film together. Firstly we had to make sure the script was in order: in our case the group wasn’t too happy with the ending and so as a team we discussed the best possible was to conclude the narrative and how we would be able to have a superhero ‘fly’ and have that come across on the screen without looking fake as challenging. We decided to film this through not actually showing the flying but simulating it through film the cape buoyant in the wind. Further we needed to find locations for where we wanted to shoot the narrative this meant going out and scouting the best spots and finding out if we could even use these places from the owners of these places, for example we had to find a car park location for the scene where the superhero takes flight, we chose one car park originally but the owner came back with permission only if we paid a large amount of money which we weren’t so willing to abide by. So the group conjured up the idea to use the RMIT car park on one of the days that it would be open.  We also had to fins actors which meant writing up a casting call (attached below) and scouting actors from friends to online platforms such as star now in order to find our talent. we also had to story board what we wanted the film to somewhat look like, so once the locations were found we set out to take photos of the shot sequences we would shoot on the day (attached below). There was more on our checklist of things to do: for example making sure we booked out the right equipment and had it at the right time of our shooting too. Pre Production was actually very fun and interesting, we had to ,plan meticulously in order to make sure we had all the necessary things together to make sure our production ran smoothly. It was a good test of organisational skills and collaboration working with different people and different ideas and making sure everyone was content with the final decisions. Here are some of the documents we put together during pre production:

Risk Management:

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1yrPPhVeRZFhKWtDuvcK0-8kEW7mqG_MC6qz8VGkn-WU/edit#gid=0

Pre-production:

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1HUD2-S_82dx_iQOwzkXmf9vn0ZNaerXOZ0NLisdbr6U/edit

Story Boarding :

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1NpG8kKqu0Y6Tbhd2Rgd5uZOjGhHRmy5a47iRsbWAkQc/edit

Casting call sheet:

https://docs.google.com/document/d/17uA1amlNt2Z02UhS7CmN32Da6wBhHLRUTYs2L9skp9M/edit