Pre-Production1

My role in the pre-production stage of this project was to research and come up with the games that were involved during the show and coming up with some of the content during the show. Eventually i ended up just helping in all parts of the pre-production, helping with the games, content, recce's, call sheets, clearance etc. The Recce's required us to include the location, location adress, General information on the location, times and places that we will be filming at, any safety hazards and aesthetics. The call sheets include the schedule for the production, Location and where everyone has to be at certain times. One big problem we encountered was that we was seemed to split into two teams thinking of content to the show and it was changing all the time, for example we had two different game ideas for the show which were "The switch" and "Guess the Tune"but both couldnt be put into it. So we came together and called a production meeting and decided on which game was the most practical but the most entertaining at the same time, which we finally resolved in the end by picking "The switch" which was my original idea and everybody was happy. I enjoyed researching different types of games and current games that are on gameshows on youtube and the internet. Also trying to think of new ideas that we could put into the show, I enjoyed it because it allowed me to be creative and design whole new game idea's and mess around with different ideas. I found the Recce's quite difficult because we had to consider every different safety hazard that could go wrong during the show, so it took quite alot of thinking and viewing the study to identify all these different hazards and make sure they wouldnt injure anybody or whether equipment could break, also the aesthetics was quite difficult because we had to basically get in the role of a sound op and cameraman to find out the potential shots and acoustic values of the studio. If i were in pre-production again i would of liked to be a bit more organised so everybody knew what they doing, which would of solved some problems during this stage for example some people at times were sitting around at times doing nothing because they hadnt been given instructions on what to do or didnt know how to do a certain thing. So we could of sat down at the beginning and picked jobs properly by discussing what people believe they are best at.