Unit 1- Pre-Production report

Preproduction Techniques for the Creative Media Industries

What is pre production and why is this important?

Pre-production is the planning before the production, this is important because if the producer wasn't to plan what is needed for the production then he or she wouldn't know how much it would cost overall, also the concept of who is needed and when their available for the recording. The whole concept of the Pre production is so that everyone that is included then knows when or where to be for the production to take place. Also it is important that during the Pre production process the producer thinks about the roles that would need to be included for the recording to work.

Different types of production and how pre production is used.

There are serval different types of Pre-Production they are,

• Computer Games, by producing a overal plan this indicates the creation of the characters and the set up of how everything will run for the game to work.
• Web/Interactive Media, this can be used by the website designers as they would need to plan what would be included in the web page.
• Film and Music Video - For this type of production a story board would be helpful as it would be used to create the scenes for the film/video.
• Television - The television would need to find a venue to present the advert or something  but a script would be needed as it would make the production easier.

How finance, time, facilities, materials, contributors and location must be planned for and why.

There are many different requirements that must be planned for and these might be:

• Finances - Within Finances this then includes the crew (getting to know the crew and assign roles and responsibilities) also you would need to include the sources needed, and the studio time that is required. The equipment and travel to the locations need to be organised because the organiser will have a budget that could either be a low budget or a high budget. The organiser would need to also remember that some of the actors, actress or even dancers and singers may need to be payed to do the job.
• Time - Everyone knows that time is very important, it would be useful if someone was to create a schedule that everyone apart of the production could include, also there would possibly be some deadlines that would need to be face, also within the production the deadlines are very important as if you dont meet the deadlines then it could slow the production down. Within the Pre Production you have to make sure that there is availability of equipment and personel as if this isn't planned than the production could face consequences.
• Facilities - The producer would need to over look everything that would be included, so this therefore includes, what equipment is needed, the cost of the facilities that could be used, this could be a church, cathedral or even a closed space, for different acoustics. 
• Materials - The materials would be the items that would be needed, this is important for planning documentation, risk assessments, computer formats that could be MP3, WAV or hardrives. Within the materials you have to remember that the budget.
• Contributions - The contributions for this production is the producer, artist, crew, experts and management. 

Codes of practice and regulations associated with sound recording.

There are codes od practice and regulations these would included the Mechanical Copyright Protection Society- Performing Rights Society Alliance (MCPS-PRS), location permissions, copyright, Health and Safety and Insurance. Insurance is a big one that any producer needs to include because if someone gets hurt then it would back fire on the producer as there is no legal form to identify that everyone is safe.