“For my day job, I’ve done a lot of pipeline design and development for animated films (I’ve co-designed the entire production pipeline for two features, and contributed pieces to several others). So I figured I’d apply the diagramming and summarization techniques I use to create a general film production pipeline overview for you.
Film production, like screenplays andanything else that is initiated, proceeds, and then completes, can be (and is) broken down into a three act structure: preproduction, production, and postproduction. Simply stated, preproduction is everything that happens before you start shooting, production is all the stuff that happens while you’re on-set and shooting, and postproduction is everything that happens afterwards.
The diagrams and summaries I’ll present are influenced by my big budget feature work, but the way to apply them to smaller budget films is to simply scale them down. In doing so, some pieces may fall off if you don’t have a friend who can do them for low enough cost (storyboarding and previsualization being the main pieces of preproduction that are most easily cut).”
Read this article from IndieAuteur.
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