A1 Logistics Materials

A1 Logistics

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Materials

Materials are any physical or digital artefacts used in filming. This includes what you have generated yourself including archive footage and library materials such as sound, files and video footage. There are many types of materials these are; original materials, archive and library materials, photo library materials, sound library materials, internet, assets, audio, script, animatic, graphics, interviews, costume, properties, recorded music.

Original materials refer to ‘in house’ which means your own production team has generated them. The advantages of making props ‘in house’ are that they can be as specific as you want them to be; they are made to fit a particular space in your film and can look however, you want them to.

Archives can be published and unpublished; they can be in any format such as letters, manuscripts or photograph and the digital equivalent to these.

Internet opens so many doorways for film production. It allows us to do mass research in efficient timing. The internet allows us to gain access to materials to see how they look and how we can get hold of them or someone who can make them. Internet also allows low budget films to get hold of copyright free recordings and use them for their own films.

Interviews can be vital throughout production; the first interviews you may conduct is finding the right people to fit the roles in your team. Interviews will also allow you to gather a testimony before your production. If you don’t conduct your interviews properly or at all then you won’t know the people you hire, what’s going on during production and what to expect in the future of your entire film.

In your film production, you will want to hire the best property master or prop(S) master. They are responsible for all of the factors that go into acquiring or even creating the props that you want in your film. If you do not hire someone who is experienced then this can cause a lot of trouble for the look of your film. An experienced prop master will do there research into how the scenes should look so they can allocate the correct props in them. For example if your scenes are set in the 1800’s then they will carry out a large amount of historical research to make sure everything looks as realistic as possible.

Costume is also a very important part of this. A large amount of time will go into the costume design. Various people to make sure everything is perfect because it is as important as the props and they may even have to match will oversee it. The same would happen if you don’t hire an experienced costume designer, they might not provide the costumes you wanted in the right time you need them. They might also not do there research and the costumes will be unrealistic to the setting that your scene is.