Pre
production
Pre-production is
the process of preparing all the elements involved in a film. In filmmaking and
video production, pre-production formally begins once a project has been green
lit. At this stage, finalizing preparations for production go into effect.
Financing will generally be confirmed and many of the key elements such as
principal cast members, director and cinematographer are set. By the end of
pre-production, the screenplay is hopefully finalized.
I have already told
about the cast selection and location finalizing. In this segment, I am going
to talk about how we designed and prepared the locations and how we proceeded
to the further production stage.
Our first step was
to prepare the location for the first day (or rather night), for which we
started off with readying the room’s look, so that it resembled a hideout,
since the main bully is portrayed like a gangster. The room was full with
gadgets like mobile phones, laptops and other computer peripherals and
cigarette boxes were scattered everywhere and we prepared the room’s look, setup
of the camera, lights and all simultaneously.
We stuck to the
policy of minimum 4 retakes per shot, so that only the best would go in our
movie. As I have told before, the costumes and make up were all courtesy Ankit.
How we shot the movie is in topics to come.
Our second location
for the movie was the school. We did not have to do much effort for preparing
this location because firstly, the problem we could have faced was crowd
control but we were lucky enough to get shooting permission on a Saturday, which
is an off day. About 30-40 students had come to the school and that too because
of extra classes. Secondly, nearly all the students knew us, and were happy to
help once their classes were over.
So, this is how we
arranged for, and prepared the locations to begin with the shoot.
The equipment
needed for shoot was all provided by our college, Jagannath International
Management School, courtesy Mr. Anish Saxena and Mrs. Ritu Sood, our teachers.
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