Alright, so we've gone through the bulk of paperwork and general logistics of pre production. Now let's dive deeper into some of the important departments that have to get started during this phase in preparation for production. Production Design is one of these important aspects that you need to pay attention to during the pre production phase in order to bring your story world to life. If you have complex worlds, especially like a sci fi, fantasy, or period film, you have to start working on gathering the materials for production fast, and have your design teams to start working on creating those props and set design for you. Now, obviously, the point of this course is that you don't have the luxury of a huge team for such purposes. But let's start with the basics.

Regardless of whether your crew is big or small. That is using your concept art. To tell your idea to the production designer. Be sure to have a verbal discussion with your production design team. get them started working with a set budget for their department to use to purchase the materials and crafts they would need. Now if it's a small crew, I'm assuming you would most likely have one production designer.

And if you're lucky, a few friends or additional peers around to help, this step would take a lot of time then. So make sure your production schedule factor this in ahead of time. So for my shot, we basically had to not only design and create some of the props, but also to create the background props to design our set. As you can see, lots of work and effort went into it in any one slip up can ruin the entire set. Imagine seeing a modern day watch in a period film in the background. Yeah, you get the point.

So one of your short film involves massive worldly changes. Should you do an entire set For that, or would it be better to address that in post production visual effects instead? on a tight budget? It's better to go for the post production option and I'll explain why. In the next lesson.