Revisualization for Project 2

Our second project in this class required a number of previsualization assignments including overhead camera diagrams, storyboards, a budget, script and shot list among other things. I, as producer, dealt primarily with the bookkeeping/budget and, with Rory the DP’s aid, I helped craft the shot list. The bookkeeping/budget was a very simple excel document. I listed various items, but didn’t have much to do in the way of accounting. Our group’s director, Blake, had the fortuitous happenstance of being quite acquainted with a local theater troupe who agreed to provide us with our costumes and actors quite free of charge. Needless to say, we all appreciated this immensely and I found my job of budgeting and bookkeeping an easy assignment. Rory and I then made the shot list based on Blake’s storyboards and Rory’s marked shooting script. It too, was a fairly straightforward task, and the experience left me distinctly impressed with Rory’s flair for excel spreadsheets. We then filmed over the ensuing weekend. The previsualization materials were extremely useful in planning our time efficiently and effectively. We filmed everything we needed over the course of a single afternoon. I doubt we would have been so proficient without the preparation the previsualization assignments afforded us. Overall, I’d say the hardest part of previsualization as director was coordinating to make sure every member of the crew knew exactly what to do, when to have it done by, and what may need to be adjusted before filming. Organization has never been a strength of mine, so I find this role to be an invigorating challenge.