Pre-production

 1) Script

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. 

3) Mise-en-scene

Costume: One character in school uniform to represent a school kid and another in a monster costume holding a wooden stick as a prop

Lighting / time of day: Graveyard scene at night to seem more suspenseful along with river scene whereas the forest scene will be in the day

Actors - casting, placement, movement: 

Make-up and hair: N/A

Props: Green potion in a jar with glow sticks to look enchanting

Setting: Set in a graveyard to begin and then moves to a river which then goes into a forest too

4) Shooting schedule 

I will be using my preliminary exercise and adding one more scene as it already consists of 2 characters and locations then i will continue the story to a teleportation to a graveyard at night which will be around 5pm to not be too dark for good lighting.  

Plan a shooting schedule for your filming over the next two weeks. Include when, where, who is required and what shots you will complete at each time/location. Again, this can be on Google Docs or Sheets or you could simply use your blog. The most important thing is that you've planned it!