Summary
Contents
This book is designed to provide practical guidelines to those in the field of entertainment-education drama who want to sharpen their skills. With separate sections for various users - programme managers, writers, producers, directors and actors - the book is a structured, step-by-step manual that provides answers to the problems they can face. The book focuses in detail on the `design approach' for determining and articulating effective messages that are contained in the drama. It draws on methods that have been tried and tested worldwide. In addition to a number of actual scripts that have been converted into dramas, it also contains useful appendices that provide sample documents of various procedural requirements as suggested in the book. Esta de Fossard is Senior Communication Advisor and Professor at the Johns Hopkins University's Bloomberg School of Public Health, Center for Communication Programs. She previously taught at the universities of Southern California, Ohio and George Mason.
Guidelines for Pre-Production: Artistic Preparation
Guidelines for Pre-Production: Artistic Preparation
Preparing for the Shoot
The shoot is the most expensive and intensive period of any film production and must be done as efficiently, but accurately, as possible. It is advisable to complete the entire shoot without interruption. This means that once the shooting schedule has been prepared, it should be followed scrupulously. If production falls behind for any reason, every effort should be made to catch up, even if this means less coverage or combining scenes, or even dropping scenes (or optional cuts) that are not essential to the story and contain no message. Usually, it does not work to plan to take “pick-up” shots ...