The following areas require documentation in your produciton portfolios.

The Creative and Organizational Process of Film

Initial planning
• Finding the idea
• Research
• Treatment and script development- (use hollywood script format)

Pitch and approval
• Developing the proposal
• Negotiating the proposal with the teacher and crew
• Receiving approval to proceed

Technical planning
• Conceptualization—interpretation of the script in terms of theme, genre, purpose, style, mood and overall structure

• Visualization—definition of shot selection, camera position and movement, lighting, colour, set design, costume and make-up, supported, where appropriate, by the creation of a storyboard containing key images of relevant scenes (story boards required for all scenes)

• Production scheduling—definition of responsibilities, task lists and matters relating to organization time frames and deadlines

• Editing and sound strategies—outlining the preliminary concepts of editing and sound as dictated by the chosen genre and by the individual project

Physical production
• Pre-production—selection of crew members, scouting for and determining locations, acquiring costumes and props, casting of actors (if applicable), definition of technical needs, finalizing script, storyboard and production schedule

• Production—principal photography and sound recording, execution of storyboard, continuous overview of production planning

• Post-production—various phases of editing (assembly, rough and fine cuts), sound editing, selectionof music, titles and visuals and final mix