Unit 4

short films: crew Departments There are many departments that work on a film project, examples of these departments are Director, production, camera and lighting, production sound and art department.  A  skeleton crew  is the minimum number of personnel needed to operate and maintain an item at its simplest operating requirements such as a ship or business, during an emergency and, at the same time, to keep vital functions operating.  The five essentials roles are director of photography, makeup/hair, production assistant, location audio and gaffer/grip. The two positions he missed were production designer and script supervisor. A production Designer is needed because they could make your production look great as if it had a massive budget even if it had a small budget. Script supervisor are very important because if your production continues over a few days or longer there would have to be a lot to keep continuing through each scene such as pr...

Logistics: Deadlines Deadlines are a very common thing to encounter during the process of a film project. Directors will experience deadlines before they even get to the production phase of producing a film, there will be deadlines in pre-production. If deadlines are not met this could cause serious problems for the film and the director. What are the key deadlines in film? There are many deadlines that have to be met in all parts of production including pre-production, production and post production. In pre-production a major deadline is casting and finish the final version of the script. Without these two deadlines met it would be impossible to continue to production. The most important deadline in production is finishing filming, this deadlines covers the whole of the deadlines in production including equipment deadlines, location deadlines etc. The final deadline in film is in post-production and it is finishing editing and rendering the final cut. If this deadline is not met...