Pre-Production

                                       Pre-Production 

Pre-production is the first step of the practical production of a TV programme and/ or a movie which is when the project will get the all thumbs up, this is where a production company along with offices are established where  illustrators and concept artists will assist the production crews and the director at creating a storyboard. The director, production manager and finance department will develop a budgeting plan towards the pre-production process, a production schedule is later created by the director production manager and then the assistant director creates a shooting script at the same time. As the director is the one directing the whole programme or movie they will be responsible for the health and safety of those involved during the pre-production process, this is where directors will provide actors and the filming crew with insurance and will follow along the PACT trade union rules and guidelines to ensure their safety when on location/ set. 

Next the director, assistant directors and producers will hire actors, film crew and assistants to participate in the production of the programme or film. Casting directors will hire actors through auditions and assist them during rehearsals in-between takes of scenes. Location managers will work with the director, the director photography, production designers and the art director to find, manage and design sets and locations that is suitable towards the theme, genre and plot of the programme. The director of photography is the cinematographers that often work as a group where they operate the camera supervise the photography and record the entire programme/ movie. For the audio including the dialogue, sound effects and the use of diegetic and non-diegetic sounds in the programme/ movie the director of audiography will supervise the audio throughout the whole production working with the sound designer, sound designers and the production sound mixer who operate recording stereo equipment and microphones/ boom poles on set/ location.  The music within the diegetic sounds (nightclub music and/ or radio/ stereo) and non-diegetic sounds (theme/mood music) is the composer and the director of director of audiography often work together to create their own music or simply contact music artists or producers for permission to use their soundtracks in the programme/ movie. Costume designers and make up/ hair artists will often work together at preparing the characters of actors before and in-between scenes and the management of props will also have the involvement at assisting around sets, providing instructions towards actors and crew and supplying production companies. Lastly directors, assistant directors and producers will hire filming equipment from suppliers which is where they begin filming after obtaining the equipment needed.

Directors, producers, script writers and storyboard artists will then divide the script and the storyline in to segments  where they will make plans to either film all their scenes in chronological order or simply film out of order and then assemble all the scenes together in the right order of the storyline during Post-Production. When directors and producers plan to film out of order it basically means that they will film half of the scenes in one location that are based in and then move on to the next one so that they can save money and time instead of going backwards and forwards between places.   Directors and producers will work with production companies to make decisions about using the different camera techniques to film their movie/ programme where they will wither plan use Single Camera Production or using Multi-Camera Production as they both have a their own list of advantages and disadvantages towards filmmaking.

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