Assignment 4 - Pre-production Documentation

For the final project, our group has to create promotional videos for NUS and CNM. In this week's class, we presented our pre-production documentation for the NUS video.

The basic concept of our video is to pique prospective students' interests by presenting them with scenarios which they are not likely to associate with studying or even NUS. For an example, the scene will begin with a person who seems to be gambling. As the video progresses, the viewer will see the caption that this person is a student majoring in Maths and calculating statistics through the study of gambling probabilities.

The main focus during the presentation was on our storyline and how we play with the transitions. It is still rather difficult to tell how the video will turn out until we actually begin filming. However, based on the concept we have in our minds, we are determined that this would work, although of course, we will make changes should there be a better idea.

Dr Julian also mentioned that perhaps our presentation of the business student is not appropriate and would draw flak from the people of the business faculty, so that is one point which we can work on.

From this assignment, I realised that the preparation of a pre-production documentation is really tedious and time-consuming. The script needs to be properly written out, the timeline carefully planned, storyboard accurately depicting the scenes in our video and of course, manpower distribution needs to be equal. We might face difficulty in getting our cast, and therefore need to have a backup plan. Given our time constraints however, the group really needs to meet up effeciently and follow the filming schedule as we need to borrow the camcorder and necessary equipment from the MDL.

Another comment raised by the class was whether we will infringe any copyright issues by using Lego. In my opinion, there shouldn't be any problem as we will not be capitalising on the brand nor product and are not defacing it. Moreover, our friend Esben from Denmark gave us the go-ahead ;p

Filming process will start soon and I will update again when that happens.