Film production is becoming increasingly accessible with advances in portable, high quality and relatively low-cost equipment and software. The requirements of telling a story through the medium of film or video, and the discipline required to communicate this to an audience, remain as necessary as ever. In this unit, you will investigate how conventions of narrative storytelling are used by filmmakers, looking at formats and generic conventions. You will then prepare for a film production by creating and gathering the materials and preparing the cast and crew. You will need to bring together a range of elements to successfully produce your product: camera, lighting, acting, direction and sound during the production phase, and successfully use post-production techniques to deliver a final outcome. The introduction of more widely available software and less expensive high-quality equipment, such as DSLR cameras with the ability to shoot Full High-definition (HD) footage, as well as video streaming services, such as YouTube®, have opened up film production to many more people. It is now easier than ever for people to make independent fiction films and deliver them to an audience online. Independent filmmaking is also a growing area in the creative industries and in higher education, with many institutions offering the opportunity to study the various aspects of film production at a higher level.
Learning aims
In this unit you will:
A Understand codes and conventions of fictional film production
B Produce material for a fictional film of a specified genre
C Apply post-production techniques to a fictional film utilising codes and conventions of a specified genre.
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