1. L3 INDUCTION
SESSIONS
The Creative & Media Diploma

2. PRODUCTION DESIGN
• Designers make lots of decisions
that effect how the film looks and
how the visual style will make an
impact on the audience

3. MISE - EN - SCENE
• Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
(Steven Spielberg 1989)

4. PRODUCTION DESIGN
• To make these decisions we need to
work from the script (screenplay)

5. THE SCRIPT
• You have been given Scene 55 from
a screenplay - READ IT
• What is your response to it ?
• Does it remind you of anything you
know or have seen ?
• What do you think is happening in
the scene ?

6. MOOD BOARD
• A mood board is a creative tool, a
process that enables you to develop
and share the visual direction for
your project.
• It's an essential activity for art and
design directors.
• Mood boards are a key stage in the
design process.

9. MOOD BOARD TASK
• In your groups you will create a
mood board for Scene 55
• Try to communicate your ideas and
feelings through collage
• From the magazines, select parts of
images and decide how you want to
show them on the sheet of paper
• Parts of the mood board can be
abstract, working with colour,
textures and atmosphere

10. SCRIPT BREAKDOWN
- DESIGN ESSENTIALS
• What design elements can you find
in the script ?
• Make a list of things that you need to
make, build or find that are
mentioned in the script
• What other things have you included
in your mood board that help build
up the visual picture ?

12. PLAN (The Mudmap)
• Where is everything ?
• Make a plan of your initial thoughts
of the setting of the scene
• Where will the characters be
placed ?
• This does not have to be to scale,
but try and imagine what the camera
is seeing

13. “BLOCKING”
• A process during which the director
and actors determine where on the
set the actors will move and stand,
so that lighting and camera
placements may be set.

14. CINEMATOGRAPHY
• camerawork
• shot type
• position & movement

15. SHOT TYPES
• Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
(Steven Spielberg 1989)

16. SHOT TYPES

17. SHOT TYPES

18. SHOT TYPES

19. STORYBOARDING
• Storyboards are a sequence of
pictures created to communicate the
desired general visual appearance
on camera of a scene or movie
• This is the technique filmmakers use
to work out on paper what type of
camera shots they will need to shoot
a scene

20. • Storyboard from The Simpsons

21. STORYBOARD TASK

22. STORYBOARD TASK
• In your groups you will create a
storyboard for Scene 55
• Try to visualise the action of the
scene
• Think about how the action will be
framed - what type of camera shot
will be used ?
• Add the dialogue of the shot under
each storyboard frame

23. STORYBOARD TASK
• Keep it simple! You don’t need to be
a great cartoonist to draw a great
storyboard
• No stick-men please! Try and draw
how the characters might appear
• The key is to include only what is
necessary to communicate the
action

24. STORYBOARD TASK

25. STORYBOARD TASK

26. • Final sequence with the original storyboard

27. BACKGROUND
• Shifty (2008)
Director & Writer Eran Creevy
Released 24 April 2009
• THE FILM LONDON MICROWAVE
PROJECT
Supported by BBC Films
• Film-making teams pitched their projects
to a panel of experts before 2 projects were
given the greenlight to go into production.
• BUDGET was only £100,000