Pre-production task 1

What is pre-production and why is it important?

Pre-production is a schedule that outlines all the different things that will be needed in order to produce something, it is important as it is used to set out an outline of a schedule that everyone involved will have to use in order to stay within a certain budget and time frame.

Types of pre-production and how pre-production are used.

Pre-production is used in multiple types of media such as:

Website design, to plan out the design and style

Films and music videos, to manage the budget and location, facilities etc...

Music recordings, working towards a deadline and making sure you have all the right equipment

Games, getting the right equipment and facilities

Writing, planning out a story and getting the right contributors and working around time constraints

How finance, time, facilities, materials, contributors and locations are planned and why?

Finance is planned by: -

Managing a budget and costs as this will keep make sure we do not run out of money and stay out of debt.

Hiring the right artists and crew for the song so there is no wasted time or money

Planning the transport to make sure we have enough transport to take all the crew and equipment

Hiring the engineers to maintain the equipment and make sure everything is ready to use.

Hiring the studio so we have a place to record.

Time is planned by:

Planning the schedules in order to make sure everyone is available and so we don't waste any time and money.

Working towards the deadlines so that everything is done on time and that we do not lose out on any money 

Availability of resources, make sure that the resources I need eg crew and equipment are available when I need them so I don't waste time.

Facilities and locations:

For my recording I will need a recording studio to record the song in.

Equipment: Mixing desk, instruments

Transport enables you to get to different locations and transport the people around to where they need to go. 

Recording studio: I will need to hire a recording studio to record the track and also mix the recordings together

Contributors: 

Producers: To produce and release the track

Artists: To help record the song and play the instruments 

Crew: To make sure everything is set up and ready to use

Management: To manage the recording and make sure that everything happens on time and works to the deadline.

Materials:

Planning documentation, to make sure that there is a timetable so eveything is done to the deadline and everyone is available when needed 

Risk assessment, To make sure that no one gets hurt when in the studio and make sure everyone is safe.

Form of data, the form of data will be an Mp3 file. 

Computer, to mix together the audio and mix down the track

Mixing desk, to mix the audio inputs together.

List of available equipment and model:
A Mac
Mixing Desk
SM58 Microphone
Rhode Microphone

Codes of regulations associated with sound recording.