MEST4: Preliminary exercise planning

James bond- dinner jacket scene 

Script/treatment
For a music video, you need to produce a treatment outlining what will happen in the video.  For a film or TV production, you'll need a script. Whatever you're producing, you need a written plan of what happens and what is spoken.

Storyboard
For a recreation, you may want to create a screengrabbed storyboard. This involves capturing each of the shots in the 30-second sequence you are recreating and pasting them in order with written notes in a blogpost or Word document. Alternatively, storyboard sheets are available in DF07.

Shot list
The most important document you will create: a full shot list containing every shot you need out on location. Take this document with you when you film and tick them off one by one.

Mise-en-scene planning
Mise-en-scene is the most important aspect of a good recreation. You need a location, cast, costume and props to exactly match the original production. This is one of the most difficult aspects of the task!