Preproduction Meeting 1
The crews will meet as groups on Sept. 29 from 11 a.m. - 1:50 p.m. During the meeting, each crew will complete the following tasks.
- Decide on a working title for the production;
- Revise the "hypothesis" paragraph from the original proposal. As presented on page 63 in our textbook, the hypothesis paragraph
- Opens with an overall statement about the theme;
- Offers a more specific statement about how the producer plans to visualize the story through characters and sequences;
- Ends with an optimistic assessment of the effect this documentary may have on audiences.
- Identify the specific people who will be interviewed for the project.
- Rank these interviews based on their importance to the project.
- Assign a crew member to conduct a preliminary (untaped) interview with each subject. Everyone must do at least one interview.
- Decide on 5-7 questions that each interviewer will ask each subject during the preliminary interview.
- Develop a list of needed b-roll footage and "beauty shots" (Hewitt and Vasquez 33-34).
- Organize a preliminary shooting calendar for the dates Oct. 6 through Nov. 3. All shooting must be complete by Nov. 3.
By noon on Friday, Oct. 1
Each crew should send a single MS Word document the summarizes the detailed results of its meeting to me at sspence [at] clayton [dot] edu.