Pre-Production Techniques

Pre-Production Techniques

 

My production is a small documentary which could be carried out by any freelance documentary film maker or be scaled up to be produced by an independent factual producer in example Nine Lives Media. Its an observational documentary about the wildlife in which is both educational and interesting.

 

If I wanted my advertisements to be shown on live television, I would have to consider the financial side to things for example; How much it would cost to rent out a camera? I researched how much its would cost and the asking price from www.manchesterz1hire.com is £65 inc VAT per day. Transport? Depending on how far away Manchester Z1 hire is away from the desired location to shoot the footage could be relatively expensive, if you were to order taxi it would cost you around £25- £40 at Call-A-CAB taxi company depending on the location. The paper work that is needed within finance in creating a factual programme would be a budget sheet and a check list to organise how much money you have to spend on each part in creating a factual programme. The things that you would have to pay for within a factual production would be paying for location, equipment, transport and production crew, they would also pay for interviewers and journalists but not usually interviewees.

 

Contributors taking place in my documentary factual will be just myself as documenatry is made independently,  however if I had chosen to use interviewees or actors the paperwork in which I would use when keeping account to the contributors would be an Actor's release form. This will have their name, signature, address and what part they will be taking in the factual production. If BBC were making a television production, they would look for contributors by creating advertisements in news paper articles, and would get in contact by emailing  a casting agency.

 

My documenatry will be a student film so I will be able to collect the facilities which are needed from my college, if I was not able to gather any facilities from my college, for example if they were all taken by other students on my course I would be able to go to the facility house called Northern video Facility Ltd. The facilites I need for a documentary factual would be H2 recorders, cameras, lights and editing studio. When having to film a factual documentary without having any available facilities, there are many different facility houses all around Manchester and the UK in which you can hire out in expense.

BBC get fundings from TV licences so documentaries can be funded by a larger organisation which will allow short factual productions to air on television. Some factual productions might be given sponsorships within linked to  advertisements or sponsors of programming on commercial channels like channel 4's Jamie Olivers 15 minute meals sponsored by Sainsbury's. The paper work that is needed within finance in creating a factual programme would be a budget sheet and a check list to organise how much money you have to spend on each part in creating a factual programme. The things that you would have to pay for within a factual production would be paying for location, equipment, transport and production crew, they would also pay for interviewers and journalists but not usually interviewees.

My documentary will be following all of Ofcom's broadcasting regulations and the law which will ensure no racial stereotyping and there is to be no bad language within the production.  I will need to fill out release forms, to stick to Copy right regulations as I will be using music from artists for my documentary, this is to avoid any legal situations. If the BBC did a tv production then there will be contracts and release form to agree that this production is allowed to use any sources which might be visible to the audience.