Pre production blog tasks
Video adverts pre-production: blog tasks Watch this great video on low-budget filmmaking from our friend D4Darius on YouTube - it's more aimed at narrative filmmaking but we can still learn from these tips for filming an advert: You may want to look over the original AQA brief here to check the minimum requirements . Work through the following four tasks: 1) Create TWO scripts for your two different adverts You need to write two complete scripts for your adverts and format it like a real TV script (see picture on the right). There is lots of help out there for top-quality script writing. A good place to start is the BBC Writers' Room which has top tips, a whole script library of real examples (like the Doctor Who script pictured). Although these are TV dramas and not adverts it is still very useful to learn how to write a good script. Make sure you include both stage directions and dialogue - and as you can see from the example, often the stage directions are much more