Pre-Production skills Flashcards

1
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what is a mood board

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a mood board is a collection of pictures to stimulate creative ideas

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what is the denotation of a mood board

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  • images
  • colours
  • text
  • font
  • keywords
  • fabrics
  • styles
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what is the use of a mood board

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  • it is the starting point for a creative media product
  • to collect samples, materials and a range of relevant content
  • as a constant reminder of possible styles
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4
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how do you turn a physical mood board into a digital one

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take a photo of it

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5
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what is a mindmap

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a mind map is a range of ideas for a product

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what is included in a mind map

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  • main idea
  • nodes
  • sub-nodes
  • branches
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what is the generic purpose of a mind map in pre-production

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to quickly generate outline ideas. to develop and show links between different thought, aspects and processes of a product

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name three pieces of hardware you need to make a mind map

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  • keyboard
  • mouse
  • monitor
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what’s the generic uses of a visualisation diagram in pre-production

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to give a client or production team to show what the intended product will look like

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10
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true/false

when annotating a visualisation board just annotate what we are seeing

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false

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11
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what to include in a storyboard

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  • image
  • shot number
  • scene number
  • shot description
  • shot size
  • shot length
  • timings
  • lighting
  • sound
  • edit
  • fx
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what’s the generic uses of a storyboard in pre-production

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exploring different ways and to illustrate to the production team, use as a map or list scenes needed to create the final product

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13
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What you would find on a script

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  • scene number
  • set/location
  • time of day
  • camera movement
  • scene description
  • editing instruction
  • name of character
  • sound effects
  • parenthetical
  • dialogue
  • stage directions
  • layout
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Who would use a script

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  • director
  • camera crew
  • writer
  • editor
  • actors
  • everybody on the team
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15
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Which media industries do production crews require scripts

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  • television
  • movie
  • radio
  • theatre
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16
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What’s the purpose of a script

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Identify the location
To provide stage directions
To provide dialogue

17
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What’s the generic uses of a script in pre-production

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To show the production team what is happening in certain scene, as well as some editing references and descriptions. Set the tone and style. Tell you everything you everything you need to make the scene.

18
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Explain why a script is a suitable document for the pre-production of a television drama

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It will tell everyone exactly what they are going to make in narrative, sets the tone of the piece, tells everyone what is required to actually make it

19
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What can you expect from a client brief

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What the client wants you to create and the target audience

20
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what would be included in a client brief

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  • product
  • purpose
  • content
  • theme
  • style
  • genre
  • target audience
  • time scales
  • deadline
  • constraints
    house style (font, colour scheme)
21
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how to interpret a client brieft

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  1. highlight what you are being asked to make, highlight key things, types of platforms (print/online), re-purpose (change what you have created so that it works on other platforms like web browsers)
  2. create a mind map {production name in center, images ~ characters, clothes, colours, props, time period, target audience ~ age, gender, race}, client requirements {name, what they require, what information ~ price, size}, text {write the title multiple times in fonts
  3. what is the feel of the product? is it going to create any emotion? atmosphere? happy? sad? informative? colours you will use, expand on the mindmap by explaining why the things you have included are there, purpose of the product {educate? inform? entertain?} and how will the product do that
    VISUALISATION DIAGRAM IN TEXT
22
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how might you get copyright for a piece of music in the media industry

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contact artist or producer about what you want

get a license

23
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what is the copyright law

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a law that gives the owner of a published work the right to decide what other people can do with it

24
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part of the copyright law

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  • if you have created something it is yours for a set period of time, copyright protects the work so that no is allowed to use it
  • they re allowed to use the work if they have asked for your permission
25
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what would happen if an individual breaks the copyright law

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  • loss of sales
  • could be made unemployed
  • would have to cover legal expenses
26
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what would happen if a business breaks copyright law

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  • lack of trust
  • prosecution
  • brand damaged
  • fined/ sued
27
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intellectual property

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pretty much everything will have some form of copyright protection but it might not be clear who owns it or how rigidly the protection will be enforced

28
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creative commons

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a non-profit organisation dedicated to building a globally-accessible public commons of knowledge and data