The three main stages of production are: Pre-production: Planning, scripting & storyboarding, etc. Production: The actual shooting/recording. Post-production: Everything between production and creating the final master copy.

There are 4 stages of film production: development, pre-production, production and post- production. Each stage has its share of legal tasks. Development: This stage focuses on getting the initial elements of the film in place. First of all, the property to be produced is selected.

4 Steps in the Pre Production Process Legal and Budgets: Take care of the business side of production and hire your crew. Creative Planning: Work with your department heads to plan out everything needed to make your project work. Storyboard and make a shot list. Logistics: Revise your shooting schedule and budget.

Preproduction represents the planning process, which probably is the most significant stage of the production, as everything else depends on how carefully the stages of production are anticipated.

Pre-production is the stage of a film, television or commercial production that takes place before filming begins. It is followed by production (during which visual content will be filmed) and post-production (where the filmed visual content will be edited into a coherent whole).

Pre-production (commonly known as “Prep”) – the period where the project/production begins to hire the crew, opens a production office and prepares to shoot the project. This stage usually lasts 3 – 8 weeks*.

Shot lists are helpful for bigger productions that need shots at multiple settings or features several actors. It allows directors to organize their thoughts before filming begins and starts to form a shooting schedule. Shots lists go hand-in-hand as part of the script writing and pre production process.

Pre-production is the phase of further developing ideas and planning prior to the process of production. In a live action movie sense it is the period before filming starts. In an animation sense it is the period before any real animating takes place. Like all great projects the success is in the planning.

Most films are financed through a combination of investors, tax credits, grants, and other sources. This funding must be secured (usually by film producers and sales agents) at the beginning of a motion picture’s development, in order to pay for all the costs that accrue during the making of a film.

For example, a producer may receive 20% of the total production fee before principal photography, 50% during photography, and then the rest after. Most producers are also promised a cut of the film’s profits. In short, producers may obtain back-end points (i.e. percentage on profits) on net profits, at the most.

7 Ways to Fund Your Short Film

1. Short Film Grants. Short film grants can be a great way to secure short film funding without having to worry about satisfying investors with a big return on investment (ROI) on your film.
2. Fellowships.
3. Screenplay and Screenwriting Contests.
4. Investors.
5. The Three F’s: Friends, Family, and Fools.
6. Film Crowdfunding.
7. The Film Fund.

A Production Manager is responsible for leading an entire production from script to screen – pre-production to post-production – on any given feature film or TV show. Whereas the term Production Manager exists mostly in television, it is also a role I have found on non-union feature films as well.

The Roles of the Film Production Team

• Producer. This person is essentially the group leader and is responsible for managing the production from start to finish.
• Director. The director is primarily responsible for overseeing the shooting and assembly of a film.
• Screenwriter.
• Production Designer.
• Art Director.
• Costume Designer.
• Cinematographer.
• Editor.

As such, some actors get paid less while others are paid way bigger than some directors for a movie. On other occasions, most experienced/high pedigree directors get paid far more than any actor/actresses on their set.

Typical Salary of a Film Director according to Chron .com is $92,220, that’s 77% more than the average actor. Looking from the perspective of the “star director” and “star actor” it is the actor that makes more, as you see top stars making $20 million per film (or $75 million for Robert Downey Jr.).

On the other end of the scale, emerging directors can expect $250,000 to $500,000 for their first big studio feature, but there are exceptions (one European auteur was said to have recently have been paid $1 million for his first Hollywood blockbuster).

Top 15 Hollywood Directors And Their Signature Styles

• 8 JAMES CAMERON.
• 7 MARTIN SCORSESE.
• 6 M. NIGHT SHYAMALAN.
• 5 TIM BURTON.
• 4 CHRISTOPHER NOLAN.
• 3 ALFRED HITCHCOCK.
• 2 STANLEY KUBRICK.
• 1 WES ANDERSON.