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Filming can be described as the overall process of producing a film from someone’s initial story or idea by means like commissioning involving script-writing, casting, shooting, directing, editing and screening of the entire final product. More important is that filming as an activity employs a significant proportion of people and in nature utilizes a period ranging from months to years in order to be successfully completed. However, this may vary depending on a wide range of issues such as production technicalities. The production of a quality film follows a series of stages which are interrelated. These stages can be put into three fronts; pre-production, production and post-production. These three distinct stages form the major outline that is to be adopted by the film in this project. Therefore, the outline for the unit film will follow the following steps:
Development
This is the beginning of the entire process for the unit in coming up with a quality film for a term. Central in this stage is the identification of a pragmatic story which in essence can come from various sources such as scripts, play or even another film among others. This will involve the coming together of different group members as each propose a story which have to be debated by all group members before an appropriate one that suits every participant is chosen. Subsequently, after the unit has come up with two suitable stories to be filmed, they have to embark on creating a one page outline which essentially breaks down the entire process into a one paragraph scene. This should be done together with the description of the story, its mood and the characters (Terence, 1972 and Quick and LaBau, 72).
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Pre-production
It is the next stage in outlining for film production. This stage is critical since every step involved in producing the two films is well orchestrated and planned. Being that this is a small film production for academic purposes, the group members form the production company. Also, a production budget must be instituted at this stage which caters for the expenditures involved, and for this case it is estimated at £400 for the two films. After having the estimation of the budget, the group then goes ahead to hire various crews used during filmmaking. Some of the crews that the group have to either source from within themselves or from outside are: Director whose major role and duty rests on storytelling, making of creative decisions as well as acting of the film; the Assistant Director (AD) who plays a crucial role in the overall management of shooting schedule as well as having a tight management on the production logistics; Director of Photography (DoP) who is the overall supervisor for the photography of the entire film; The Production manager who is vested with overall responsibility of managing production budget and production schedule. Impressively the group has done this and allocated among themselves the various roles required (Steiff, ; Thomas ; Paula Parisi, 17).
Production
This is the stage where the group comes up with video production film and subsequently shoot it. The unit began their production by arriving at the venue of shooting by their call time, for instance, in Michael’s shooting, the group and the entire crew arrived between 8 to 9am in the morning. Assistant Director (AD) is particularly useful in this stage as he informs every person involved that the take for the film is about to be recorded and once everyone is set to shoot, he call ‘roll sound’ when sound is to be involved, this is followed by ‘roll camera’ normally answered by the camera speed once the camera begin shooting. The clapper who is already by the group stays in front of the camera holding clapper board calls ‘marker’ and then slaps it shut. Once shooting is complete at the end of the first day, the director which in this case are Carolyn and Michael, approves and gives consent of the following day’s shooting schedule and the group also have to develop a progress report showing clearly the progress of the entire progress (Elisabeth Weis and John Belton, 19).
Post-production
This is the last the stage in the film outline performed by the video/film editor as they assemble the video/film. Critical in this part is that the film is released in cinemas or to consumer medias such as DVDs and CDs. In this case, it is released to class or professors where it is evaluated and feedbacks given (Elisabeth Weis and John Belton, 26).
The filming process that was applied by the group has got some significant correlation with what takes in the normal and modern film culture. First and foremost, the normal film culture usually follows a series of steps which are four in nature, that is, development, pre-production, production and lastly the post-production. Although due to poor team work and team spirit, these stages were not followed to the latter hence impacting negatively in the overall production, this is well manifested in the relationship between the writer and Carolyn that can be described as not productive. The development stage was manifested by the group when each one of them had to create a story, present it at the group’s meeting, after which the best story is chosen. In pre-production, the group manifested this stage by appointing various crews as well as the division of duties amongst members of the group such as film directors, assistant directors (AD) among others. On the other hand, an impeccable technical machines as well machines are always needed in the general filming system. This group particularly was limited in this but managed to get a considerable machines of cameras and other materials. Some of the expertise in the normal filming industry are the directors who does the story telling, the assistant movie director (AD) managing the shooting schedule as well as overall production logistics, the casting director tasked with the responsibility of searching for actors who would feature in the script, the location manager who does the location for film shooting, director of photography (DoP) who in essence is the cinematographer. Other expertise that characterizes modern filming industry are the sound designer, music composer, production designer, art director, costume designer, storyboards artist and choreographer (Tomlinson Holman, 25).
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In summary, for a qualitative production of a film, all the stages or steps that together make up the film outline have to be followed to the latter. This means that any deviation in one stage will automatically have an impact in the subsequent stages, and indeed this can be seen in the work done by the group where cooperation between group members compromised the ultimate quality and outcome of the end films.