The Film-Making Process

You'll have heard the terms "Pre-production", "Production" and "Post-production" before but do you know what they mean? This page will tell you and give you an important overview of the film-making process.

The best way to understand it is using an analogy with baking a cake. Like film-making, baking a cake has three stages:

Deciding what to bake and planning the whole thing (pre-production)
Going out and buying the ingredients (production)
Mixing the ingredients in the correct proportions and popping it in the oven (post-production)

The same thing happens in film-making:

Pre-production - deciding what to film (planning, storyboarding and script writing)
Production - going out and filming the scenes (creating the assets)
Post-production - creating the finished movie using video editing software (Revelation Sight and Sound)

Real film makers put an enormous amount of energy into steps 1 and 2. The credits at the end of a movie tell you just how many people are involved. Most of us go straight to step 3. But the results can still be good if you pay attention to the skills of movie making as described in this website.

Now let's look at what we teach our children.