12 Ten Steps of Post-production

 

 

THERE ARE THREE stages to filmmaking: pre-production, production and post-production. Pre-production is most likely the stage you are at while you are reading this book. The stage where you are researching various filmmaking techniques, toying with different ideas for a film, getting a script together and starting to raise finance.

Professional pre-production is the stage where you are actually spending money—on script development, casting, location scouting and securing crew. The second stage, production, is right after you get financing. You get everyone together and spend 9 to 10 days of 14 to 18 hours each shooting. Pre-production is physically easy but mentally draining. Production is both physically and ...

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