The Effectiveness of Pre-Production

Overall, I think our group was one the best organised, if not, THE best organised as we had a solid story throughout the planning process, other groups had to change their idea quite late in the process, this will have an effect on their finished product as the story wont be as strong as first predicted. We have been ready way ahead of time, we finished our treatment whilst the others were still finalising their ideas. But i do think we could have made our shooting schedule a little stronger and we could have organised the props so we had them well in advance. This experience has taught me that in film making, you need to be ready really early. Because if you're not ready, you wont have time to fix all the little things that go wrong, and there will be things that go wrong. We got off lightly, things break, batteries run out, you can't account for everything, but you can leave yourself time and space to fix these things. But at the end of the day, all the little things add up to a big thing, and when big things go wrong they are much much harder to fix.