Recommendations for your Botswana models and a successful pre-production photo/ video shoot .
Pre-production is key to any successful shot even in Botswana, but even so often some crews forget or intentionally put aside this important detail.
Especially Botswana photographers or cameraman will blame it on the tiny budgets.
Some clients will also give you a brief that sounds like” Do you best” ……..?
Obviously depends on your assignment and what are you producing but do not ever get fooled that only video needs pre-production .
In the PDF bellow is just a tiny part of pre-production the core basics on preparing your models and yes is valid for photography also.
Do you have 10 weeks to create a promotional video?
You should be spending over six weeks pre-producing the project. We all love the shooting and production days ,
and most people enjoy seeing their project come to fruition in post-production.
But in this era of the modern digital filmmaker, so often pre-production is overlooked.
You may have the knowledge to shoot and edit a project, but really well made promotional films and even photographs are meticulously thought out.
Every detail is examined. Whether it’s thinking about how to incorporate a company’s branding into the subject’s attire, or conveying a specific mood in the shot composition.
All of this should be brainstormed and decided on in pre-production, then implemented in production and post-production.
It all starts with:
Proposal/Treatment
This is where the groundwork for the project is laid out in a detailed document. Questions to ask are:
- What’s the objective?
- What’s the purpose?
- Who’s the target audience?
- What’s the projected run time?
- What’s the format?
- What is the deadline?
But enough about this now, is Gaborone is “African time” so we take it slowly, we will discuss some of this elements in further articles,
now lets stick to the core basics regarding models, just read the PDF 🙂
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Recommendations for a successful photo/video shoot preparing models.
