When you think of pre production, you think, oh its just a long process where nothing happens and planning is the overall goal of it, but, its so much more. When i was assigned role of Production manager and Assistant Director (Art direction),  i didn’t really get what i was doing, i didn’t know that this was a reality, i didn’t know how important i really was. From the very get-go of joining my group, i was really excited as i thought that Jaz (director)’s idea  was really powerful and could be really fun and interesting to film. A week into the group i felt the exact opposite as what i was feeling, i felt excited, i felt creative and i felt important. With the role of production manager, I had to do a lot of things in the pre production phase which were challenging to me as this was my first ever completed short film. With this role i was in charge of casting, shooting schedule, call sheets, props/costuming, meetings and catering. I think the choices i myself made were very big due to Jaz providing myself to be flexible with what i wanted. With the catering, a big challenge i had was what i should actually get, luckily for scheduled various meetings with my cast and crew, i found out if anyone had any dietary requirements which made my life easier in acquiring food for everyone, which the food was really well received. For the tone/style for the short film, i was given clearance on the set which provided myself opportunity to create my own narrative with the objects of the film whether it was costuming or various props on set. With the props, especially for Sarah and Richard, i wanted to colour code them for the individual and how they can be feeling, Sarah’s mug is pinkish red and white which i wanted to resemble a sort of guilty feeling with the red and the white could resemble innocence. For Richards mug which was blueish it represents males and the stereotypical male which we wanted to represent in his character. Another thing in pre production that really gelled us together was the constant communication and meetings we held as a team, you’d think that these meetings would be awkward as none of us really knew each other a lot except for myself and Ben, but we really all got along really well and wanted to make a piece as passionately powerful as we were imagining it, these meeting showed it.