Stages of filmmaking

Reference: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Filmmaking

• Development
  • Story
  • Synopsis
  • Step outline: one-paragraph scenes
  • treatment: 25-30 page description of the story; mood + characters, dialog, drawings
  • screenplay
  • film distributor contacted to assess market success (theater, DVD, worldwide distribution rights)
  • Pitch to potential financiers -> financial backing from film studio, film council, indepdent investors
• Pre-production
  • Production company created + production office established
  • Storyboards
  • Production Budget
  • Crew
    • Director
    • Assistant director (AD): shooting schedule, logistics
    • Casting director
    • Location Manager
    • Production Manager: budgets, schedule
    • Director of photography (DP / DOP) - Cinematographer
    • Art director: production sets
    • Production designer
    • Costume designer
    • make-up + Hair designer
    • Storyboard artist
    • Production sound mixer
    • Sound designer
    • Composer
    • Choreographer / Fight choreographer
• Production
  • Additional crew: property master, script supervisor, assistant director, still photographer, picture editor, sound editor
  • Rehearsal: actors / scripts + blocking, picture+sound: actors, action / takes
  • Report sheets: technical notes on takes
  • Call sheets: cast + crew / shooting day
  • Film processing / takes
  • Wrap
• Post-production
  • Film editor
    • Rough cuts
    • Fine cuts
    • Approval of cuts = locked
  • Sound track
    • voice recording synchornization
    • sound mix = sound effects + background sounds + ADR + dialogue + walla + music
• Distribution + Exhibition

Guides

http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Movie_Making_Manual