What have I learned? What have I done? What will these skills help me with in the future? Pre-Production my Independent study. My second block class, my chance to take time for myself to learn, having no teachers just me and no one else helping me out. Film, my dream career to be a director. I learned something about myself during this class that actually surprised me, when you get down to the real film work there is so much more than people realize. I thought that originally when you have a film all you do is say “Hey I want this idea to be a movie” then the company is like “Okay your idea will be a movie for this amount of money” Then “Okay we need actors and a script” They get all of that then they film then edit and distribute. Many times doing my research I came across the phrase “Pre-Production is the most important stage of filmmaking” Every time I looked at that I just thought well what makes it so important? Then I thought about it, if you look at Pre-Production without looking at your entire project you just think back breaking long exhausting work, but truth be told Pre-Production is the most important step of all of the five stages. I am even experiencing that right now with a film I am directing. Yes it is true that Pre-Production is long exhausting work that does feel like you are going to tear out your hair any minute. What I found many times while researching is that if you don’t do the Pre-Production stage your movie will be in seriously in trouble once you get in post-production. Why? Well if you don’t do Pre-Production what you’re saying to yourself is “I don’t need to plan out I can just hit random buttons on a camera and shoot this film. Yeah if you avoid this step you will pretty much kill everything your movie could have been.
What is Pre-Production? What have I learned from it? “Pre-Production. Pre-Production, also known as Prep, is the