pre-production

 1) Script

A1: Walking down cold wet street under a bridge and going through a construction site.

A2:Quietly following A1 path also barging construction barriers out the way.

A1:Reaches foot of the hill that the church stands on, hesitates and walks up the path towards the church

A2:Follows creeping blending into the dark night feild.

A1:Reaches church gate, sighs and is about to put first foot into church property


2) Shot list

Once you have a full script you are happy with, you can turn it into a shot list containing EVERY shot you plan to film for your TV drama AND additional shots to create flexibility when editing. You'll know from your preliminary exercise that missing a shot, continuity errors or not having enough material makes editing much more difficult. A good shot list will help you avoid this. In particular, make sure you plan lots of extra shots that you may not need but can help you with editing. These additional shots are often close-ups, cutaways, alternative angles or similar. I advise using a simple table on Google Docs to set out your shot list - you can find an example here for a student film shot list. It makes sense to write your shot list by scene or location (like in the example linked) rather than a huge list of every shot in the extract in chronological order. 

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