Paul Greeves, Managing Director - First Option Safety Company

Lynette Woods Reynolds, Line Producer

Andie Clare, Director of Production - Icon Films

Jonathon Bradbury, Head of Safety Services - First Option Safety Company

Susanne Baker, Partner Technology Partner - ERM

- The future, 

Description in the vid, essay for analysis

Essay for why, angles  solutions 

Focus on location, can link to the rest of it

- Mando “solving the problem”

-Statistics of CO2 emissions from film production, then set design

-Sound stages linked to deforestation (wood use)

-How Sets are powered

-Traveling to set locations across the globe

-Energy use on set

-Food on set and waste

-Damage to land

-Brief information on solutions

-Organisations

-Brief overview referring back to the video with some key stats

- Any other bits of information that didn’t make it into the video will go here

-Powering the sets, clean energy or tap into the grid

-Virtual production

-Food alternatives and waste management

-Set end of life recycling, minimal waste

-Sustainable sourcing materials

-Funding options

-Environmental jobs/groups/checklists

-Benefits to sustainable productions such as cost-saving

-Greenwashing

-Virtual production green?

-Getting people to transition

-More grey areas

-Films that have good sustainable practices

-Carbon neutral companies

-Change is slowly coming

-Making this essay carbon neutral

Problems with solutions
-Virtual production green?
-Greenwashing, Carbon offset a scam?
-Getting people to transition is tough, people are set in their ways
-More grey areas?

Chapter 3 (750-1000 words)
- Analyse the doc, things it misses.
- Reflect on it as it was someones else.
- Critical review of it.

Chapter 4 (500 words)
Carbon neutral essay
- Why to make this work carbon neutral?
- Calculating the carbon costs.
- How i went about it?

Conclusion (300 words)

Intro into how film sets are made. 

Sets are built, on location, in a soundstage. People travel for filming across the globe.

Having an impact, Carbon cost.

How the impact of these are meassured and what it means.

What is the overall impact of this. Stats and examples comparing to real world usage.

How sets are specifically bad for the enviroment?

Soundstages

What are they?

Why they are used?

Land usage?

Linked to deforestation, materials used.

Shooting on location

Explain what that means and all the different kinds of location shooting.

Biggest issue will be the travel to the set from all the crew.

Getting the gear and materials to the set?

How they’re powered?

Material usage

Sets use a lot of raw materials to build stuff.

Wood, deforestation, other materials

Salt for snow maybe?

Explosives?

Car crashes etc and the waste for them?

Other Impacts such as damage to land etc

Mad max damanging lands

Toxic spills from pirates

Complaints from neighbours, noise disruption etc

Disrupt wildlife

Disrupt farms, causing animals to give birth early etc

Chapter 2 (1000 words, 200 per point)

Virtual Production

One of the key ways some production companies are working towords more sustainable set design practices is Virtual Production.

What is vitual pro, and why is it different/ better than green screen?

How its helping the cause?

What are some of the draw backs of virtual production, from a practical standpoint and environmental.

On set Logistics

Powering Sets

How sets are powered currently.

How it can be done better?

Food

Vegan alternatives on set, better waste management

Set waste, sourcing and recycling of materials

How sets can switch to sustianble wood sources etc

Use reycling and better waste management

Set Location 

How use of thoughtful planning of locations can help.

Examples of storing the gear near the set to save on driving costs.

Government Help and Other Benefits etc

Eco groups to help

Eco Funding

Eco Jobs created

Can be cheaper

Can be Quicker prodcution

Greenwashing and Carbon offsetting 

What is carbon offset?

Carbon offseting productions is simple and easy to do, easiest way to make carbon neutral

Always better to prevent than offset though. Planting trees takes years to get benefits.

Some carbon offset companies are a scam with no proof etc, look for carbon reducing offsets too.

Lead on to greenwashing, what is it?

Why might production companies do it?

Getting people to change?

Why changing the indistry is hard

The people who run it are set in there ways, why?

Why people struggle with change?

Chapter 3  (500 words)

Critcal Analysis of my practical work

Chapter 4 (500 words)

Making my work sustainable

Why should I?

How i calculate the costs?

How i went about it?

How i could do better?