Contingency plan

Contingency Plan:

This blog was produced by me and my team member Joe.

As a team we had to plan our film in terms of what we will do if things go wrong. Some common problems to things going wrong within a team could be:

* Cast dropping out/ being unreliable/ being bad actors (eg poor facial expressions)

* Crew being late/ getting lost

* Locations not letting you film there/ being too noisy/ having too many people in the background

* Battery running out on the camera

* Continuity problems (eg filming one scene with a character wearing a shirt with two buttons done up, and then accidentally filming another scene with the character where he has three or four buttons done up.

The first problem within our team could be people dropping out, being unreliable or not even taking it serious. I will try to make sure everyone is happily contributing to the group and that no one feels left out at all so everyone is enjoying the work. If anyone isn't a reliable character within the group then address this to them so that they know and can hopefully act upon this, and not delegate as important tasks to them. Anyone who is not taking the coursework serious and understanding how important it is will be talked to firmly and if no change then raise a concern with our media teacher to try and sort out the best thing for the group.

The second problem that we as a group may face is crew being late or getting lost. This is not as big of an issue as the first problem, however if the team member has a valid reason for being late then we will have to work extra fast to get all the footage we need. If it is due to public transport and only happens once or twice then it can be overlooked, but anymore than I will speak to them directly and again if no change, then notify our media teacher.

If a location is not letting us film there then we will find another suitable venue and thank them anyway. On the other hand if the place is too noisy or has too many people in the background politely speak to the manager and ask if the could either quiet down or if we can come back at another time maybe to use the location by ourselves.

Battery running out is a very common problem but this applies to groups who are unorganised and lazy. Firstly as a team we will not only be organised but plan out stage of filming and what we will need. In the circumstance that we might forget it, then I will make sure that we have spare batteries ready.

Continuity problems will affect the finished product of our opening sequence badly. So in each shot we will write down costumes and set and carefully change scenes once everything is done, for example: if our character is seen wearing a robe walking out to the ring then when he enters the ring he cant be wearing a jumper or anything other than what he is seen in before.