How to Create a Film |
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| PREPRODUCTION | A sentence that states what the film is supposed to be about. | This statement should focus and sharpen the vision and intention and/or purpose of the film | |
| A description of the characters in the film | The descriptions of the characters will help the actors and the script. Characters respond to events because of who they are. | ||
| In any story or event, things happen, one after the next. A film/video is a chain of events that happen in your film. Start with the first thing that happens and follow with the next. At your first writing, put in all the details you can think of. Slow yourself down and cover each action and try not to be to general clumping many actions into one. When you have your final plotline, you will take out actions that aren't important to your treatment. | Events happen to your characters. Your characters will do and say things showing the audience who they are and who they may become. | ||
| A plan in a specific form that is a plan to make the film | Each shot has a purpose to the whole film. If the shot is in the script, it must appear in the film. | ||
| Draw or take pictures of important scenes showing where and what the camera needs to capture to tell your story. This will help you to convert the script from words to images | What is important to show the audience? What camera angles and points of view must be shot to create sequences? | ||
| The people in front of the camera visually and voices heard in the film | The right actors must be chosen for the characters. How will the cast audition? | ||
| The people behind the camera that shoot the film. Start with the essential 7. | The crew must start with 1 director, 2 camera, 2 sound, 1 continuity, 1 slate for at total of 7. Add additional crew as the shot dictates. | ||
| The places where the film takes place. | Where should each location be? What is possible? What can the film afford? | ||
| budget | The money needed to create the film and how the money will be spent. | Where is the money? Who is investing? Who gets paid and how much? | |
| PRODUCTION | shoot day(s) |
The days that the crew works to shoot the film and capture sound | Call Sheets! and a master schedule, dates, times and places. |
| POSTPRODUCTION | reviewing scenes shot | The editor, director, camera perosn, writer, producer, and sometimes talent must view dailies. Did the crew get the shots needed for the film? Are reshoots necessary? | |
edit picture |
place each visual file in the proper place with the correct timing and transition to create the finished visual track of the film | There is a way that actions must be filmed in shots must be assembled to make filmic sense. This is the art of film editing. Why does an editor use a cut, a dessolve, fade to black, fade from black or a special effect to go from one shot to another? |
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| edit sound | placing each audio file in the proper place with the correct timing and transition to create the audio track for finished film | Sync sound, Wild sound, music, dialogue, voice overs, narration and Foley artists make sound tracks that can be monographic, stereo graphic, 5:1, 7:1 and 7:2. The enhance the visual in ways that go far beyond what we see and what we hear. Radio used to know as "The Theartre of the Mind!" Check out Orson Wells, War of the Worlds. |
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distribution |
Creating the finished film in the correct file type and sending the copy of the finished film for the audience to see. | Where will the film/video be seen? TV, theatre, Web site, dvd, cd, What kind of file is needed for which audiences?
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