Session 9 - Pre-Production @ City Screen Basement

Session Aims:

• Learn Crew Roles and Responsibilities for a Film Production
• Visualise a shoot schedule
• Plan and organise the content for the film

RARPA Statement:
"I can understand and contribute ideas to a film schedule"
The Group were asked to respond to the statement. The Red marks show how they felt at the beginning of the session and the Black marks show how they felt at the end.

Today was perhaps the most important session of the campaign so far. The YCR crew were tasked with nailing down, not only the creative side of the film production but also the logistics of how we could capture the ideas.

Following the previous day's session Inspired Youth with the help of Stephen Burke drew together all the creative ideas from the previous eight campaign sessions which could fit into scope of the production. They came up with 6 elements with which the YCR Crew were to finalise, shape and craft into the film concept.


Each element was addressed in turn with the group focussing on how the elements could deliver the key messages to their desired audiences. The creative ideas were finalised and the logistic of the shoot proposed.

It was hard work! But worth every minute. The crew signed up to the schedule to show their availability and the shoot is to be shaped around these considerations.

In addition to the schedule crunching, the crew also got to grips with the equipment they will be using for the shoot. Award Winning Film Director Kevin Curran introduced the group to the tools of the trade and they all had a go at using the equipment in a mock interview set-up, in preparation for tomorrow's shoot. Inspired Youth's guerilla kit-bag included;
1 x Sony HD EX1 Solid State Camera
1x Sony HD Z1 Camera
Tripod
Lights Kit
Rode Boom Pole
Rode Directional Microphones