Overview of Production Process
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Welcome to Zac Miller's lecture on The Overview of the Production Process. This lecture will explore and break down each part of the filmmaking process from first conception to final edit. We will approach each topic from the pragmatic viewpoint of the student, but I'll also be discussing how the professional world approaches these same issues.
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What we will go over (the main steps in making a film)
Introduction
A Quick Breakdown of the Film Crew
What does everyone do?
How come teamsters just stand around all day?
Pre-Production
- Conception of the idea
Is it shootable? - Writing/Script Breakdown/Scheduling
How much will it cost?
What are the requirements of the film? (Locations, cast, crew etc.)
How long will this take to shoot? - Casting
Where do I find my cast? - Paperwork (yes, even students need to do some paperwork)
Location agreements, talent releases, call sheets etc. - Location Scouting
- Renting Equipment
Production
- What does each department do on set?
- What is a shoot day like on a professional film?
- Things to think about
- The workflow (as what you shoot moves into post-production)
Post Production
- WORKFLOW WORKFLOW WORKFLOW
Telecine?
DI? - What does everyone in the post production department do?
- Continuity editing
- Picture lock
- Finalizing your "Look"
Color correcting - Editing the sound mix
Post-Post Production
- Showing and distributing your film
I will also briefly discuss
Getting and keeping work once you graduate
Homework Assignments
1. Read ANY ONE article from the current issue of American Cinematographer by going to http://www.nxtbook.com/nxtbooks/ac/ac0908/#/0
- It will ask for a user name and password but under that it will say PREVIEW. Click Preview and the magazine will load. You will need flash in order to view it which can be downloaded for free. Find the table of contents at the upper left side of the page and read any one article. Turn the page by clicking the lower right side of the page.
2. Watch the very short "Legal Stuff" video and the "10 Tips" video from Current at http://current.com/make/training?section=shooting (These videos are about 3 min each)
3. Look at some of the "Professional" forms at the Chapman University production resource at http://ftv.chapman.edu/students/VPO/forms.cfm
- This site has everything from SAG contracts to Location Agreements to blank call sheets. It is a great resource to keep.
4. Skim some of the "Movie Making Manual" WikiBook http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Movie_Making_Manual. It's a really good overview of pragmatic filmmaking. Look at the "production overview" and "Post-Production Overview" sections. Those sections are a good introduction to what we will be discussing in class.
Film Clips
Elephant chapter 2
Any Given Sunday chapter 1
Requiem for a Dream chapter 5+6
Additional Resources
This is the treatment for a cool music video. The treatment is at http://www.keithschofield.com/goose/treatment.html and the video is at http://www.keithschofield.com
http://www.Craigslist.com is a good site to find work at. "Film/Video" jobs usually better than "Crew" jobs.
http://www.mandy.com/ is probably the best site to find work on. It costs $20 to post a job so the jobs are usually pretty legit.
http://realitystaff.com is a good site if you want to work in reality TV. There is ALWAYS work in reality.
http://www.archive.org is a great site to find video and songs that are in the public domain.
http://www.la411.com/ is a great place to find everything film in LA
