Pre-Production Unit: WWII Memories

Finished product! This featured in my presentation which went really well. I believe the approach I took of long hours and preparing everything long in advance paid off. The result was a product I believed to be my strongest work and represents where I should be as a 3rd year.

Media World

Pre-Production Unit: Sample Reel Shoot Day

Here are our contributors, stills taken on Canon 550D

Fred Wheeler

Fred Lee

George Revell

Percy Lewis

Set-up

In the Sergeant's Mess at Pirbright Barracks, used a Key Light with the Sony XD, It was a challenge to keep on schedule due to the changeover involving the memory space but we solved that my using to SD cards and uploading each card to the laptop.

It was a fascinating day and I hold even more respect for these brave gents!

Pre-Production Unit: Shoot Day Prep

Accompanying Sample Reel:

Working Title: World War II Memories
Duration: 1'30"

Call Sheet

Checklist

Pre-Production Unit: Idea Development

- Taking reference from Michael Rabiger's book, Directing the Documentary, I have been organising my Pre-production Proposal document.
- Through checking through the list of requirements on the Unit brief I have added more subtitles to the document including:
- Audience Expectation - highlighting what the audience can expect and reasoning behind why the audience would appeal to my programme.
- I have set my work into a distinctive thematic season:

“Mission: Operation Frankton” a season of programming across the BBC

- Made a new comparison to Army: A Very British Institution, which the BBC qoutes it as being

“A collection of BBC programmes about the British Armed Forces, featuring classic documentaries and historic events dating back to the 1950s” (Source: BBC)

- Listed key production personnel
- Laid out the Style & Structure into 3 acts detailing essential stylistic and structural decisions.

I have a finished first draft to hand in tomorrow and look gauge group feedback if possible.

Useful websites:
Cockleshell Heroes Home Page
Combined Ops

Dissertation Unit: Idea Development

Swinging the Lambeth Walk from 1940



"The reduction of the grandiose to the absurd by this simple device held fascination for years."
Documentary: A history of the non-fiction film p.149

Pre-Production Unit: Low key Camera Test

Obtained a black fabric back drop on a manfrotto and arri frame, experimented with a Canon 550D, used a home made soft box to house a 500 Watt work light. We experimented with the focal length, framing and positioning of the subject and looked at eyeline angles. Before next week we need to obtain a less powerful light with softbox, book out Canon 7D from uni with rode directional and a radio mic.