Last Week of Pre Pro

So the last week and a bit has been all about madly getting all the elements together for the submission of the production bible. Most of the time has been allocated to the 'production office' i.e. all the paperwork elements involved in film making. So there has been budgeting, scheduling, file management and naming and data storage calculations and requirements.

There has still also been much artwork to create, finalise and sort. So designs have had to be cleaned up and composited for model sheets, and expression sheets. Final decisions have had to be made about colours, design elements and props to do with environmental designs and characters.

As mentioned previously the art work creation has been a much harder slog than the production office work. That again is because I find the organising and decision making far easier at a 'bigger picture' level. Deciding the exact shape, colour and placement of a coffee table in a room is far harder when I have to draw it than it is working with an artist who can 'riff' a dozen different designs in 10 minutes, and moulding their work to fit what I think is the right feel of the piece. My point being that I find 'steering' far easier than 'generating' when it comes to image creation. Of course I concede this could simply be whining.

The completed bible is however a great document that is an excellent map of where I am going, and where I have come from. It is also motivating to see how much work has been generated even to this point. Especially considering I know I have less art work than my class mates (see above) and yet there is still a lot of material which goes a long way to defining the piece.