Pre-production
- Laura Paynter and Charlie Derham
- Dec 16, 2018
- 2 min read
Pre-Production review
Idea development: We all had different ideas and mind mapped them. We got down to three ideas, which was, a documentary about music, animals or menopause. In the end, we got down to doing a documentary on menopause as we had more knowledge on it and more sources, plus the documentary was unique as no one had done it on menopause before.
Below is work by Charlie Derham
During the pre-production stages of our documentary I was still getting to grips with the college style learning and reapplying all my other skills from all of my classes into media and this was a big change for myself, however after the first few weeks of discussing what our documentary would be on and working on our pitch, which I still believe as a team we all should have put more effort into, I took a much-needed break to America to relax and clear my brain of stress and a can say I came home a different man, with the stress from the pitch off of my shoulders I began planning and researching things we would need in our documentary, such as interviews we should include and whether or no we should have a presenter of a voice over.
I made the decision as a producer that I would direct my team what to research and why and looking back this really worked well, however with the sad departure of Amelia and Kirsty the team moral took a turn for the worse, however, I was not going to give up. Kylan, Laura and I soon after we heard the news got together and finished all the pre-production folder work we needed, and I was very impressed. The work was to a high standard however in some parts lacking structure like in the recces which we recreated and built them around a supplied template.
So, on the whole, though a little rocky at times I found that my group and I really did a good job with our pre-production, we did so well to set up our interviews as soon as we did, and we did an amazing job with our call sheet! Something else I am proud of. In conclusion, I think we have a solid pre-production folder and a good topic to do our documentary on, the Menopause!

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