Planning for a Single Camera Production

My objectives in creating this short film are to make the end result appear as professional and industry-standard as possible. I also want to ensure that the planning process of the film (in other words Pre-Production) is thoroughly detailed, requiring all necessary elements. This, in turn, should simplify the actual filming of the production itself, as well as elements of Post-Production - such as editing. When the film was conceptualised, I first established a Proposal, which detailed important aspects of the film - notably the central plot, setting and characters present. The atmosphere of the film is important to the narrative, therefore great attention to detail was put into this aspect of the production, with the genre being crime / gangster esque, with notable callbacks to Old Western films. The Script itself was essential in establishing where exactly I wanted to take the film, with the intended audience response beginning to surface, being that of curiosity, a sense of thrill and great shock value. Perhaps the most helpful aspect of Pre-Production (besides the actual script itself) is the Storyboard, this will be used prominently on set, as it depicts every single shot necessary in a simplistic format, along with descriptions of each one; this makes the actual shooting of these scenes streamlined to a significant degree.