OTS planning

My group, 'Pulse Productions' includes; me, Elliott and Cal

Producer: 'Pulse Productions'

Director: Cal

Camera operator: Elliott

Editor: Elliott

Costume/make up: Ruby

Lighting operator: Cal

Sound production: Ruby and Elliott

Special effects: Elliott

Prop manager: Cal

Casting: Group (Cal, Ruby, Elliott)

Cinematographer: Elliott

Foley artist: Ruby and Elliott
Script writer: Ruby and Elliott

As it's a small production we only need one camera so it is possible for the director to film whilst directing, however, we could always enlist help off people from different groups to help with filming if needed.

Locations: Cal's house

Actors: Elliott, Ruby, Cal (hopefully)

This list is somewhat accurate, however we will each partake in assisting each other with the creation of our opening title sequence project. 

Storyboard

Our first task was to create a story board which shows the plot of our OTS and also includes the camera angles that we have chosen for each shot. This story board was drawn by hand and also shows annotated notes of what is happening in each individual shot such as the lighting.

Animatic

Our next step was to create a photo animatic of our OTS. For this we took photographs of us acting out the OTS, just like how we decided we wanted it to look in our storyboard. Each photograph is basically a simple recreation of our drawings. We couldn't get each shot perfectly how we wanted it to be but we instead just changed some of the camera angles and lighting to make it work. From doing this we know we need to add more creative camera angles as we realised after making the animatic most angles are mid shots. Our animatic will either be uploaded to slide share or vimeo. 

Our next step of planning before filming the OTS will be to write the script. This will be a group effort so we can discuss as a group to involve everyones ideas and keep everyone happy.