Production Requirements

 Type of Production

My webisode pilot production will be a web-serial because there will only be one or two parts to discover the mystery in my show. Another reason is because the pilot is aimed at teens because is a teen drama.

 Finance

My source of finance for the pilot will be funded by National Lottery. The reason why I have chosen the National Lottery is because there are 12 Lottery funders who independently decide which projects have successfully applied for a grant. So this means if 1 lottery fund does not decide to help us finance for our pilot, we can always ask another lottery fund to help pay for the things we cannot afford.

Budget requirements:

 Equipment –

A camera from the media department or a mobile phone with good camera quality can be used because it will not cost for it to be rented or borrowed. If we was to buy a good quality camera, the price of cameras varies so it will most likely be from over £90.00 to at least £40,000. For my pilot, I will be using a single camera, but I will also be taking different shots from different angles to make it seem like I am using multi cameras.

 Transport –

The budget for transport will range from £50 up to £200 because we will need to travel to different destinations to shoot scenes due to the fact that the pilot cannot be shot in one place.

Facility hire –

To hire an editing suite it will be: for a dry hire, from £150 for half a day or £250 for a full day of editing. So the budget for this will range from £450 to £600.

Time

Availability of equipment –

We will use the equipment given to us from the college to shoot the pilot and use a booking system to keep track of what pieces of equipment has been borrowed, and not to make any mistakes of equipment being misplaced or stolen.

Availability of personnel –

I will use call sheets to determine and decide which actors deserve what role in the pilot. The call sheets have the number of scenes there will be and what the scene names are. It also shows the location of where each scene will be filmed.

Facilities 

 Post- production equipment

The editing suite we will be using is the Mac Suites in the college as it has Final Cut X and is free to use and is an easy access because we do not have to travel far to use it to edit our footage.

 Availability & costs

It will cost around £16,000 for filming equipment in the industry but it will not cost a thing for our pilot because we are going to use the college resources such as the cameras (which will be around £9,000 in the industry), tripods, etc. For the editing suite, it will cost up to £300 for a full day hire, in the college it will be free of cost due to the fact that we have easy access to the Mac Suites to edit any time of the day.

 Materials

Sound library materials

What is copyright free music?

Copyright free music, also known as Royalty Free Music, allows the purchaser (us) to pay for the music license only once and to use the music for as long as we want to.

Paying for clearances is a good thing because it allows us to use and pay for footage, actors, radio stations (that are heard in backgrounds). It ranges from £50 upwards, so it will not cost much to use in the pilot.

 Locations

For my pilot, I will need a letter of confirmation or a permit that will allow me to film inside of shopping centers, such as Westfield, Intu Bromley, Blue Water etc. and stores, such as New Look, Hollister, Tommy Hilfiger, etc. because most of the scenes that I will be shooting will be shot inside of shops and the shopping center (of people walking and the crowded spaces).

 Limitations and risks

The limitations are that the distance may be too far for people to travel to, and for the equipment to be carried to. It will be difficult to set up the camera and tripod in the shopping centers because it will be busy as people will be barging and rushing past us; they will pay no attention. But at the same time it will be a good thing because of the background (people walking past).

The weather and lighting may also be bad because in shopping centers the lighting may be bad and as for British weather, you can never depend on the weather so risks will have to be taken on the days we start filming.

The background sound will prevent us from hearing what the actors will be saying because it will be noisy. A way to sort this out is by using voice overs so when it comes to editing, the actor can record their voice over the noise.