May Post 1 – The Pre-Production Process
Everytime I get down to watching a film and criticizing it I forget about all the effort that actually goes in making one.Watching a Film and criticizing it happens to be the easiest bit in the process of film-making.Making a movie goes beyond a simple idea and capturing that simple idea.The simple idea is merely a foundation.The simple idea is meant to be elaborated and written in the form of a script.It is then broken down into shots and those shots are recorded on a shot list.The shot list is forwarded onto someone who will form images to represent the shots;this process is called storyboarding.Then we move on to the nitty gritties ; where we understand and explore how we will edit the film andwhat sound and light we will use.With Organization being the most important part of the pre-production process,we are then to fill out a shooting a shooting scheduele which helps in keeping track of what actors are going to be needed and which location would be used onwhat days.Together all this gives us only 5 forms but it requirs more than 1 week of work to put it together;and this is only for a smal scale 3 min narrative! SO when you watch a film and no matter how long or short it is before you rip it up with your criticism ,just think about all the work gone in just creating thestory!
