Pre-Production Portfolio Unit 30

Unit 30: Pre-Production Portfolio

By Peter Hennigan

Script:

Advert starts with Kadeem talking about the day of the accident.

Flashback to accident

Kadeem and Peter are shown walking out of college, Kadeem  is in front.

Peter is shown wearing headphones, with the music blaring out of the headphones.

Back to interview

Kadeem is shown getting upset whilst recollecting memories of the accident.

Flashback

Both Kadeem and Peter are about to cross the road, Kadeem crosses and waits at the other side, whilst Peter is crossing but is also distracted by his phone/mp3 etc…

Back to interview

Kadeem seems distressed, sighing

Flashback

Shows Peter in the middle of the road, distracted by phone/mp3, in background car approaches.

Cuts to inside of the car where, Craig is distracting Mo from driving, by changing radio stations.

Craig looks up and sees Peter in the middle of the street.

Craig: LOOK OUT!!!

Back to outside of the car, Kadeem sees the car approaching, speeding.

Kadeem: Peter, watch out!!!

Peter looks up at Kadeem, signing.

Peter: (tuts) Shut up, Kadeem

Car crashes into Peter

Back to Interview

Kadeem is shown crying

Flashback

Peter drops to the ground and rolls once or twice after being run over.

Car tyres screech as the car brakes

Craig looks in the rear-view mirror, Mo looks into the wing mirror.

Mo: Oh God! What’ve I done!?!

Kadeem runs towards Peter, whose is now idle on the ground.

Kadeem: PETER!!!

Kadeem now emotional, shouts to the cars driver.

Kadeem: GOD DAMMIT GET AN AMBULANCE!!!

Both Craig and Mo get out of the car, Craig reaches into his pocket to call an ambulance of his phone.

Kadeem is shown slapping Peter’s face, shaking him and pressing down on his chest trying to revive him, but no response.

Shot of Peter laid down on the ground dip to black.

Pan shot of desk which shows 4 chairs, 2 of which are empty.

Kadeem is then shown grieving at Peter’s gravestone.

Advert ends with shot of gravestone followed by narration.

Shooting Script:

Clip one:

-       Medium close up of the friend crying, maybe pan to the side to keep the emotion there.

Clip two:

-       Long shot, up to a medium close up of the two friends walking and talking flashback.

Clip Three:

-       Close up a friend talking about the accident, few different camera angles and again a pan.

Clip four:

-       Back to the flashback, where a friend is running across the road. Done with a long shot into a medium close up.

Clip five:

-       Pan shop. Medium shot of the friend sighing.

Clip six:

-       P.O.V shot of the car coming towards the second friend.

Clip seven:

-       Back to the first friend, where it’s a close up of the face to show how much emotion there is.

Clip eight:

-       Shot of the driver’s reaction, done with a medium close up but enough to fit some of the car in.

Clip nine:

-       The first friend trying to revive the second friend, close up and medium close up to fit the two body’s in different perspectives.

Clip ten:

-       The driver calling for help, now a long shot to get the full car in and the driver too.

Clip eleven:

-       Friend one then calling for help with a close up and a pan shot.

Clip twelve:

-       Last shot of the person dead, go from a close up to a medium close up, end up with a long shot of the body just lying there.

Clip thirteen:

-       Camera panning across seats and then there is an empty one where, where the person died.

Clip fourteen:

-       First friend grieving at the second’s persons grave, medium close up and pan to catch all sides of the person- two different camera angles

Clip fifteen:

- Camera zooming out of the friends gravestone to end of the video.

Health and Safety:

Our advert itself is all about health and safety.

The main risk is the pedestrians when we are filming the speeding car scene, as we are going to be driving in an incredibly busy area.

There are also cars and buses on the main road and the entrance of the college that we need to include in our risks.

We must also consider the death scene of the victim, where he falls to the ground after being hit by the car. This could be included in H+S as the victim will be falling on tarmac and could be bruised or be scratched.

Plan B for the Advertisement for the Fire and Ambulance Services:

As we are filming in the run up to the end of the year, winter will probably be our main weather threat whilst filming; this could coldness, heavy rainfall or snowfall.

Our major structure for this advert is the car that will be driven by a second year media student. There could be any unexpected problems to occur concerning the car; this could be that the car is broken or unsuitable for the road or if the car needs an MOT.

The final flaw that could happen is if the Preston City council do not grant us permission to film a grave’s headstone.

If these points listed happen, then we will have to seriously reconsider our advert. We will have to rethink our structure of our film, come up with a whole new storyline and re-do pre-production.

Treatment for the Fire and Rescue Services' Advertisement

Our production that we have been told to create is a 2 minute campaign advertisement video for the Fire and Rescue Service, and other emergency services on awareness of road safety or fire safety. Our production team have decided to go for a road safety advert. The goal for our production is to help people realise what can happen and how something that seems normal, and that you would do every day can be dangerous and even life threatening. We are going to have a student, who gets run over on college grounds because of his mobile phone. In the end the victim will die, and we will see his fellow students going to his funeral or putting flowers were he died on his grave.

Within this production we will be able to do many things as planned, as too much activity does not really take place. With that in mind parts performed such as a person walking through college on there mobile phone and all of sudden getting run over, we just need to find a person who can drive to take place. In our production we will also need to have make up as the person who gets hit by the car will have cuts and bruises on them and we need to make it look as real as possible, to do this we aim to have a make-up artist to do our actors make-up. Preferable we will need an empty road, and hardly any students around at the time, so they don't ruin the shots. To do this we will go out and shoot during lesson times.

We did lots of research to come up with our final idea such as watching videos on the internet of previous campaign videos similar to the one that we are trying to produce. we also researched what exactly it is that our client (the fire and rescue service) do in their day too day jobs.