Personnel

Personnel is every person you need in order to successfully begin the production. For a feature film, this would include a vast amount of personnel to ensure that every aspect of production can be covered and controlled.

For a short film, the personnel would be small scale due to the production being significantly smaller than a feature film. A skeleton crew would be required. A skeleton crew is the minimum crew that you would hire to ensure that the production can be completed by the time of the deadline.

A skeleton crew would consist of:

• camera operator 
• sound recorder 
• editor 
• director 
• producer 

Limitations and risks

Limitations for your short film could be anything from distance of the shoot to the weather on the day of the shoot.

Distance: Distance can be a problem for some people if they live far away from the location of the shoot. If they really cant get to the shoot then some sort of transportation can be arranged to pick them up and take them to the location of the shoot.

Access: Access to your shoot, if people cannot access the whereabouts of your shoot then you will ned to provide transportation for them to get there.

Cost: Make sure that you have thought about all costs and added them all up, this is so you do not go over your budget. The worse thing would be needing something but you've gone out of your budget so you cannot pay for it.

Weather: High winds can be a risk to the equipment. They can be blown over or damaged by wind or rain. Preferably take caution when the weather is bad.

Identification

Recce? What is a recce ?

A recce is when you need to consider having a plan B for every aspect of your short film production, if something suddenly goes wrong you will always have something to fall back on.

A recce is an essential part of the preparation and research processes to meet potential contributors, assess locations and research stories.  Carry out as many recces as your budget and time will allow as this will arm you with information that you can use to plan your script and filming schedule.

For example, You have been waiting for months to film your shoot, it comes down to the day of the shoot and your camera man calls in sick last minute. If you did not have recces then you would be in serious panic... However because you have considered recces, you call in your plan B camera man so the shoot can continue like nothing ever happened.

Types of Materials

• Assets

Having assets are good because you have someone that is backing you up all the way, also distributing can be so much easier for you when you have a popular asset. 

• Audio

Sound editors can be hired for the audio of your short film to make it sound high quality. The better the sound is edited it really can appeal to an audience. 

• Script

Script writers can be hired to put your vision on paper but in more detail. The more experienced the writer is the more professional the short film will seem.

• animatics

Animation, experienced people that deal with the technical side of animation can always be hired. Depending on if your short film is animated or not, the better the animation the more appealing it will seem to the audience.

• Graphics

The more definition the picture quality has the better the short film will look. This is one of the biggest factors is the quality of the picture, the better the quality the attractive the picture is the human eye.  

• interviews 

Interviews can be held in the recruitment process of your crew to really choose the right person for the job role. 

• costumes 

Costumes can be hired or costume designers can be hired to give a more professional feel to your short film, sometimes a lot can be said by what a person is wearing. 

• recorded music 

Avoid getting sued for copy right. Make sure if you are using any piece of recorded music that you have the permission to use it!

Original materials refers to those generated in-house by people within the production team.

Josh's presentation. 

recorded music:

Gold smith offers creative courses. Offers degree and the end of the course. The course offers a variety of aspects of recorded music such as pitching for work, building a decent show - reel to compose music. The course gives a strong comprehension of real life scenarios.

Kingston: The course allows you to produce a piece and work with film producers. developing skills.

NFTS: gives technical advice for students and make sure that students think out side of the box. Being broad minded is their motive.

The courses offer individuality, uniqueness and creativity. Style is needed.


Harry's presentation: Costume construction:

you need high grades to be a costume constructor

skills required are pattern cutting, cutting and draping on a mannequin. you need teamwork, wardorbe maintenance and applying tailoring techniques.

We have in house design department at the Beacon School.

Properties

Property rights and copyrights 

If you ask for permission to use sounds created by companies then you should be prepared to pay for it due the company doing the hard bit of obtaining the sound. Foley artist decides what sound is going to create maximum effect for the scene. They mainly would receive appropriate remuneration for the their work that is created.

Internet

The internet is one of the newest ways to get copyrighted sound and video effects for your production. Due to the internet being so vast, there can be hundreds of places to obtain sounds from and all of it is at the click of a button. A website that you can obtain free sounds would be:

www.freesound.org

You could use free sound to build up your own sound library by collating many sounds together or adding to them to make a whole knew feel to the sound. Also the sounds are of all different types of quality. MUST make sure that you check the quality of the sound before you decide to use it because it could make the quality of the overall production that you use them in quite low.

Library Materials

Library material 

Library material refers to material stored in libraries. There are also sound libraries. Sound libraries are wild tracks of non-dialogue sounds will usually be collated by the production company for use in future projects. Over many productions a whole library of sound will be built up. For example, a large company such as the BBC, has a vast library of different sounds that can be upgraded and reused. 

Collections of different video effects are also known as action essentials. Action essentials may include anything from a landscape sunset to traffic on a busy road. 

The BBC sound effects library is a library that consists of many different types of sounds that you can buy form the Cranford website. For example you can purchase 16 different car noises for the price of £9.95