Timescales for Clearances

Timescales for Clearances:

You need the correct waiver forms secured to be able to start production and for a short film you have roughly about 4-6 weeks to get these.

Waiver forms are needed for things such as music in your film. This will be if you have taken it from an already existing piece of music. Actor release forms for all the talent in your production.

Minor release forms for anyone under the age of 18 and it has to be signed by a parent or guardian. Location recce forums are used to make sure that the location is ready for use so all the health safety checks have been thoroughly checked and completed.

Finally the copyright waiver forms is a form that needs to be signed for anyone who is on production working there for free.

Availability of Equipment

Availability of Equipment:
- The equipment in which will be available for you to use during your production, post production.

Equipment which we have access to in our Sixth Form:

- Canon Legria R28

- Lenses









- Fluid Head - TH 650DV

- Avid

- Headphones

- Mac books

- Laptops

- Boom pole

- Tascam (Sound recorder)

- Sony DCR-VX2100E (this includes blank media tapes)

- Tripods

- Speakers

- iMovie

- Props

Availability of Personnel

Availability of Personnel:

It is important when trying to recruit people to be in your crew.

- Dates

- Hours of availability

Knowing this allows you to set your production date around them.

Key questions to ask people are:

- Do you have holiday days to be used?
- Are you currently employed?
- Is there specific times during the week in which you are free?

Knowing the answers to these appropriate questions are essential because you need to know that the crew will be free during the production stage. This also allows the crew members to know so that nothing will interfere with the schedule between filming.

Finance Crew and Equipment Prezi Part 2

Finance Crew and Equipment Prezi Part 1

Contributor Experts

Contributor Experts:

Experts are people who have in depth knowledge regarding a particular, group, place, individual etc, which means that directors and producers can use their expertise during the pre-production and research and development stage of a short film's production. This means that the film's subject will be more accurate and authentic. 

An example of a expert used in film may be the use of an expert in a war film. Directors and producers will contract researchers and historians to ensure that past events are reconstructed accurately to today's standards.

Contributor Public

Contributor Public:

Public contributors refers to public bodies and the public itself, which play particular roles in productions, e.g. background crowd scenes in short films, which is cheaper than having to remove everyone from the street and hiring lots of extras to create background scenes. A producer or director will often allow public contributors by petitioning the local authorities for access to public locations.