I need to finish off my arts hero and research film making.
Proffessional filmmaking is done in three stages:
- Development - The script is written and drafted into a workable blueprint for a film.
- Pre-production - Preperations are made for the shoot, in which cast and crew are hired, locations are selected and sets are built.
- Production - The raw elements for the finished film are recorded.
- Post-Production - The film is edited; production sound (dialogue), music tracks (and songs) are composed, performed and recorded. If a film is sought to have a score; sound effects are designed and recorded; and any other computer-graphic 'visual' effects are digitally added, all sound elements are mixed into "stems" then the stems are mixed then married to picture and the film is fully completed.
- Sales and distribution - The film is screened for potential buyers (distributors), is picked up by a distributor and reaches its cinema and/or home media audience.
- Action
- Adventure
- Comedy
- Drama
- Fantasy
- Horror
- Mystery
- Romance
- Thriller
11th January 2011
I'm quite interested in the camera work and the techniques used. If I find out about the different cameras used to make a film and the techniques then that will help me with my final project.
A Frenchman called Louis Lumiere was credited for inventing the first motion picture camera in 1895. But other people had made similar inventions around the same time as him. However Lumieres camera was a portable. It was a film processing unit and projector called the Cinematographe. This was the first camera to have those three functions.
The first comercial film produced was the Oberammergau Passion Play in 1898. After that, many more films followed.
