Deluge Production Bible

Production Bible Template
This version is a learning tool – to guide beginners through the process of managing a
project (both conceptually and pragmatically) through the production process for moving
image.
A professional Production bible serves a number of key purposes
1) It compels the director to refine the initial concept “pitch” and articulate the mood,
approach and “feel” of the film.
2) It identifies the nature of anticipated response – and creates a space to evaluate on
your decision making. (By sharing the concept for review and feedback)
3) It acts as a pragmatic planning tool, ensuring that in the production phase you are
fully prepared to capture or produce the shots needed to fulfil your vision and
achieve your intention. (Tell the story….)
Try to see this version as a bit of a “training wheels” document – you may not make this
film, or even complete this one in class as the activities will be somewhat disjointed, but you
should be in a position to use this if you make a piece of moving image work independently.
If you are looping back to this activity later in the module or in module 3, secure a tutorial
with Mary early in the production to get help on a structure for your own more meaningful
version
You should also take the time to produce a version in in-design to use the skills learned in
this workshop.
Production Bible
‘Deluge’
By
Luke Fisher
Sequence overview - A brief overview of the planned sequence with notes on intended mood,
tone, audience, subtext and genre outlined.
If you find that you are “talking off the top of your head” here and making it up as you go along
you have not thought this through, and you will need to go back to your sketchbook and research
activity to help you to articulate this.
• Briefly, this is a live-action animatic (predominantly) hybrid involving a boy and

his implied relationship with a beast.
• The narrative is fragmented – live action, animatic, live action.
• The mood will be in relation to phantasmagoria, surrealism, anxiety, distortion
and action.
• The audience is going to be limited; I want this piece to be slightly avant-garde
and multi-faceted, so this would be best displayed to a niche, mature audience.
• Genre – Oneiric/Thriller/Action.
Concept and themes explored - A statement clearly identifying the meaning and intention behind
the work. This should include anticipated audience response and critical sources of inspiration,
information and influence.
While the box above describes your intended outcome this box focuses on the meaning of the
piece, and the personal themes that it explores. Is the film about love? Loss? Memory? Fear? What
are you exploring/investigating by making it? (Comic timing, shared memory, the nature of fear
etc)
• On surface level, I’m exploring the binary oppositions of predator and prey/hunter and hunted.
• Whilst side A explores the ‘flight’, side B explores the ‘fight’ of being hunted.
• The audio that I produce will be a direct reflection towards ‘fight or flight’.
• That being said, the title ‘Deluge’ (meaning heavy rainfall) is used in context here in connotation to
the persona (boy) drowning in his own mind.
• The ‘beast’ is an extended metaphor to the boy’s overstimulated anxieties of life distorting and
hunting him.
• This will be evident through my use of intertitle dialogue and objects paralleling live-action scenes,
where we see the boy struggling with his thoughts.
Script/Treatment - A record of dialogue and/or simple description of the action.
As part of your research look up and analyse film scripts and copy the conventions used.
• Allusion/referencing
• Abbreviations
• Number (single digit letter/double digit number)
• Language – contractions should be used/scripts are for the ear
• Scene heading
• Action
• Character
• Dialogue
• Intercut – multiple locations
• Transition – cuts
• Extension – informs where a character is when not in scene
Storyboard - At least 6 frames of a beat board with camera direction, audio notes and a sense of
timing.
Animatic - At least 20 seconds of scratch audio with storyboard frames manipulated on a timeline
to communicate something key to the sequence.
A link to the animatic goes here – so it needs to go on to U tube. You do not necessarily need to
produce a full animatic for short experimental sequences, but it is the perfect place to pin down
audio through a scratch track. You can also give a sense of your editing approach here.
https://lukefisherfoundation2223.weebly.com/module-2/module-proposal
Project management overview - An indication of the Production schedule, a brief sustainability
statement and notes on resourcing/budget and any health and safety considerations.
This is usually a bit of a work of fiction at the first attempt, but pushing yourself to produce a
schedule is often the best way to begin to scale down the levels of ambition. A five-minute
film will be a lot harder to schedule than a tight 60 seconds!
Wee Mon Tues Wed Thurs Fri Sat Sun

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Wk Storyboard Storyboar Storyboar Storyboar
1 d d d
Wk Storyboard Storyboar Storyboar Character Character
2 d d sheet sheet
Wk Animatic Animatic Audio Audio Test
3 side A side A animatic
- ROUGH
Wk Animatic Animatic Animatic Animati Live- Live- Live-
4 side B side B side B c side B action action action
Wk Refinemen Refinemen Editing Editing Editing Editing Editing
5 ts ts
Sustainability Statement – What steps will you and your crew take on this production to
ensure that your practice is ethical and sustainable?
Think about waste, unnecessary consumption, damage to the environment, eco footprint
etc. Do some research on how small film companies manage and present sustainable
practice.
• Ethics – pills/capsules potentially being used in live-action – trigger warning

• The capsules are not real prescribed medication – they’re flu tablets.
• Ethics – animatic contains visuals of gunplay.
• Use of paper consumption
• Use of electricity consumption
Resourcing and Budget
What will need to be purchased to complete this film? Where are the hidden costs? Who
will supply items and materials?
• Paper - £3
• Tripod - £16
• Printing - £2.20
• TIME
Health and Safety
What are the health and safety considerations and what steps will you take to reduce risk?
Think about your own safety, that of any cast or crew. Think also about the general public
and the additional risk of shooting in a public or shared space.
• Shooting will be in my own flat.

• Take regular breaks – this project will consume me if not
• Audio management
• Trigger warnings/age rating

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Production Bible Template

A professional Production bible serves a number of key purposes

• Briefly, this is a live-action animatic (predominantly) hybrid involving a boy and

Wee Mon Tues Wed Thurs Fri Sat Sun

• Ethics – pills/capsules potentially being used in live-action – trigger warning

Resourcing and Budget

Health and Safety

• Shooting will be in my own flat.

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