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AO1 Pre Production skills

Mood Boards
1. Purpose
  1. To inspire and show design ideas
  2. It is a way of gathering information
  3. Revision
  4. Creates a mood or feeling
2. Use
  1. To show ideas
  2. Used by
    1. Set designers
    2. Fashion designers
    3. Students and pupils
    4. Painters and decoraters
3. Content
  1. Sketches of a design idea
  2. Materials / fabrics
  3. Images
    1. A collage of images
      1. Overlapping
      2. Can be physical or digital
  4. Words and quotes
  5. Colour swatches
Mindmap
1. Purpose
  1. Planning ideas
    1. By brainstorming
    2. Shows your ideas
  2. Revision
2. Content
  1. main theme or idea
  2. Nodes
    1. Sub nodes
  3. Branches
  4. Images
3. Use
  1. Lets you think about the main idea
    1. And the sub ideas
  2. Shows how your ideas progress
    1. Can be digital or physical
  3. Helps you revise
Storyboard
1. Purpose
  1. A graphic representation of how your media is to unfold
    1. Shot by shot
  2. Title at the top, picture, then notes
    1. Notes have instructions for cameras and characters
  3. Arrows show character movement
    1. Arrows also show camera movement
2. Use
  1. Shows what the media will be like
  2. Shows what certain scenes will look like
  3. Tells camera operators and some characters what to do
3. Content
  1. A series of images that show what different scenes will look like
  2. Notes that give instructions to camera men and characters
    1. Arrows show camera and character movement
  3. Scene timings
  4. Dialogue
  5. Background music / sound effects
  6. Lighting
  7. Camera angles
Scripts
1. Purpose
  1. It helps people know what to do and where to go on set
    1. Directors, crew and cast
  2. Helps actors learn their lines
2. Use
  1. Helps actors learn their lines
  2. Helps crew know when to add effects
    1. SFX, visual effects and other CGI effects
  3. Helps everyone on set know what to do and when
    1. What characters should wear/ look like
    2. How a line should be said
      1. Or a movement done
    3. What kind of camera movement/ angles
3. Content
  1. Characters lines
    1. Stage directions
  2. Instructions for light and camera operators
  3. Location and mood for scene
    1. Scene introduction
      1. Characters and setting

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AO1 Pre Production skills

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	Created by Harriet Burr about 6 years ago