The basic knowledge of Film Production (and more specifically, Pre Production)

When creating a film, there are a whole lot of little parts which when combined creating a beautifully crafted film. A film structure includes: PreFilm Production, Film Production and Post Film Production.  I will be talking and explain Pre Film Production.

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Film production is made up of:

• ·      Discussion of the film. Script, budgets etc.)
• ·      Creating the storyboard.
• ·      Hire crew members.
• ·      Film and record sounds, watch and edit footage.
• ·      Edits to make the movie seamless.
• ·      Distribution of the film
• ·      Marketing.

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In Pre Film Production, the main focuses are:

The script includes a range of things from emotions, dialogue, setting, characters and scene shifts. Once completed the agent takes the script and ideas to movie produces.

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In the treatment process they take the script and idea and talk and discuss how it will play out, pitching the idea and the setting.

The storyboard includes pictures and an overview of each scene in the movie; it also includes dialogue, camera angles, sound effects, characters and lighting.

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The budget is where the movie produces invest their money into the movies, hoping that the movie will make more than what they put in. An example of when this went wrong was Spiderman 3 2007 which cost $200 MILLION dollars to make, but didn’t make the money back. Therefore the producers lost money making the film. Whereas when they made the next Spiderman, The Amazing Spiderman 2012 they only spent $80 million dollars. 

"The Amazing Spider-Man earned $262,030,663 in North America and $490,185,894 in other countries, for a worldwide total of $752,216,557.Worldwide, the film is the 46th-highest-grossing film, the seventh-highest-grossing 2012 film, the tenth highest-grossing superhero film,the lowest-grossing Spider-Man film and the sixth-highest-grossing film distributed bySony/Columbia." - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Amazing_Spider-Man_(2012_film)#Release

Crew is made up of the lighting, camera men etc.

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And that’s only a little information about what takes place in pre-production….