Pre-Production Skills

Pre-Production Skills

1. Mood Boards

   • Similar to a collage
   • Used to...
     • gather information, ideas and concepts
     • help to generate/ develop ideas
   • Contents
     • Images
     • words
     • symbols
     • colour schemes

2. Mind Maps

   • Used to...
     • develop ideas further
     • show development routes and options for an idea
     • show component parts and resources needed for a creative media product
   • Contents
     • short, meaningful phrases
     • pictures & symbols
     • key words

3. Storyboards

   • Used to...
     • Plan animatins/ videos (e.g. films, commercials, etc.)
     • organize the flow of filming (like a blueprint)
     • visualise what each scene will look like
   • Series of images with a description/ explanation for each
     • can be hand-drawn or computerized
   • Contents
     • number of scenes
     • camera movements (pan, tilt, zoom)
     • camera shot (close-up, mid, long)
     • camera angle (over the should, aerial, low-angle)
     • sounds (dialogue, sound effects)
     • timings
     • location
     • lighting (types, direction)

4. Scripts

   • Contents
     • location of scene & time of day
     • action
     • shot types
     • camera movements
     • sounds
     • characters
     • dialogue
   • Used to...
     • plan television shows or films
       • used by actors to learn their lines for scenes
     • plan comics, voice-overs or computer games
   • Written documents that explain a scene and the narrative for characters
     • may be completely original stories or adaptations of books or other storylines
     • usually written on the computer