Research Report 5- Production Planning

Filming Equipment
• Panasonic SD900 handy cam for conventional tribe shots-owned
• Finalcut Pro to edit footage-university
• Hardrive to store footage-owned
• Microphone for better sound quality of interviews-owned
• Marantz to pick up audio for voice over-university

The production schedule is simple in the fact  I need little in the way of interview rooms permission to film at venues or studios as a lot of the footage is natural.
At the same time argueably in order to make a decent film i need the commitment of people to make it look like i have a tribe, two or three people would not suffice.
I talked to my friends about the project over the summer and they all found the idea to be a good one and interesting and fun to do. All that was really required was for them to comply with the structure of what was planned and improvise, with minimal swearing in the hope i may be able to possibly show this to my grandmother. The most important thing was the planning of teamwork, when i needed the most people around for shots. Without the help of my friends in the acting and assistance in filming i would not be able to undertake this project. Having worked in groups before i really relished the fact i could do a film with no influence in whatever but knew that the work would be more demanding as it would be all down to how much effort and enthusiasm i put into it.
The only filming done so far, the initiation sequence we had 25 people come down to make the tribe which i very touched by the amount of people who had come down to support. As luck would have it, it was too windy so the fire didn’t get going, and therefore had to reschedule for the next day in which still 15 people turned up. The hardest task to get people involved wasn’t actually as daunting and for the rest of production i don’t need as many people in scenes, maybe 5 for the hunt scene and similar numbers for the other scenes i have planned.
Props are pretty minimal as the Tribe exists with what it has. Instruments which we already posess and simple things that give it more a tribal feel, a bonfire in one of the later scenes.
I am hoping that with most of the scenes already planned and free time over the holidays me and some friends can film quite a few more scenes over the holidays.