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Production involves the following main parts:
Your Crew
The Sets
Picture
and Sound
(It can be confusing with so many people milling about, so brush up on what each person's Roles are.)
Once Pre-Production is complete, it is time to do what most people consider movie making. This is the most expensive and labor-intensive part of making a movie. Therefore, it should be the shortest.
You should have a Crew together. These are the people who will help you actually create the movie. If your Cast is missing you have no one to film, but if your crew is missing you have no one to help you film. A good crew is vital to the success of your film. They need to be dedicated and have good attitudes. It would be nice if they had skills too, but that is not nearly as important.
On the first day of the shoot (and every day of shooting thereafter), your Cast and Crew will assemble at the Set. This is where you are actually going to roll tape and get your shots. A set can be "on location" (i.e. in the woods, a house, Amsterdam) or on a sound stage. Because you don't have much money, and sound stages can be really expensive, your films will likely be shot "on location" at your house. Pretty cool, eh?
The crew will arrive before the cast and set up. You will want your lights in place, the camera working, and sound sounding good before your actors are ready to begin. Don't forget that the actors do need some time in hair and makeup before they are ready to be filmed. The cast should be familiar with the scenes that you are going to film that day (the 1st AD will have given them the heads up on that, and perhaps even script copies of scenes that will be shot, the day before). The good cast members will have their lines memorized when they get to the set.
Once everything is in place, the director lets the 1st AD know. The 1st AD then yells, "QUITE ON THE SET!" A hush falls over the crowd. The director will say, "Roll camera." The camera operator will start recording and say, "Rolling." The person with the slate will say, "Marker" and then get out of the frame. A brief moment of stillness and then the director calls, "Action!" The actors do their thing, and hopefully everyone else does too. The shot comes to an end, either because it was perfect or, more likely, because it wasn't, and the director will call, "Cut!" At which point, the camera operator stops recording and everyone breathes again.
[NB: If there is other stuff going on in the background (e.g. cars drive by, people mill about) it starts before "Action". The 1st AD is in charge of Extras, and will call "Background" after "Marker" has been called, then the director can call "Action".]
This will repeat again and again until you have finished shooting. During this time you will, hopefully, be capturing Picture and Sound. These two components make up your finished movie. If you successfully get both of these "in the can" (a very archaic term now that we are in the digital world), you can move on to Post-Production.
(A list of equipment that you may need can be found here.)
Your Crew
The Sets
Picture
and Sound
(It can be confusing with so many people milling about, so brush up on what each person's Roles are.)
Once Pre-Production is complete, it is time to do what most people consider movie making. This is the most expensive and labor-intensive part of making a movie. Therefore, it should be the shortest.
You should have a Crew together. These are the people who will help you actually create the movie. If your Cast is missing you have no one to film, but if your crew is missing you have no one to help you film. A good crew is vital to the success of your film. They need to be dedicated and have good attitudes. It would be nice if they had skills too, but that is not nearly as important.
On the first day of the shoot (and every day of shooting thereafter), your Cast and Crew will assemble at the Set. This is where you are actually going to roll tape and get your shots. A set can be "on location" (i.e. in the woods, a house, Amsterdam) or on a sound stage. Because you don't have much money, and sound stages can be really expensive, your films will likely be shot "on location" at your house. Pretty cool, eh?
The crew will arrive before the cast and set up. You will want your lights in place, the camera working, and sound sounding good before your actors are ready to begin. Don't forget that the actors do need some time in hair and makeup before they are ready to be filmed. The cast should be familiar with the scenes that you are going to film that day (the 1st AD will have given them the heads up on that, and perhaps even script copies of scenes that will be shot, the day before). The good cast members will have their lines memorized when they get to the set.
Once everything is in place, the director lets the 1st AD know. The 1st AD then yells, "QUITE ON THE SET!" A hush falls over the crowd. The director will say, "Roll camera." The camera operator will start recording and say, "Rolling." The person with the slate will say, "Marker" and then get out of the frame. A brief moment of stillness and then the director calls, "Action!" The actors do their thing, and hopefully everyone else does too. The shot comes to an end, either because it was perfect or, more likely, because it wasn't, and the director will call, "Cut!" At which point, the camera operator stops recording and everyone breathes again.
[NB: If there is other stuff going on in the background (e.g. cars drive by, people mill about) it starts before "Action". The 1st AD is in charge of Extras, and will call "Background" after "Marker" has been called, then the director can call "Action".]
This will repeat again and again until you have finished shooting. During this time you will, hopefully, be capturing Picture and Sound. These two components make up your finished movie. If you successfully get both of these "in the can" (a very archaic term now that we are in the digital world), you can move on to Post-Production.
(A list of equipment that you may need can be found here.)
