The areas of Film making

 The areas of Film making

Production

Production is the process of making the film. It includes Pre-production, production and post production. 

- Pre production includes the planning of the film: coming up with the title and scope of the film, storyboarding, sequence of instructions, writing the voice over script and a script review. 

This plan for a battlefield fight is an example of the kind of things that would be included in pre production.

- Production includes: Rehearsal, Video shoot, Voice over recording and reshoots. 

- Post production includes: Rough cut review, review of the voice over, retakes, final cut reviews, picture and sound editing, sound mixing, visual effects. This is a behind the scenes video of the Last Jedi production and post production. The last Jedi was produced by Lucasfilm. 

Marketing

Marketing is the process of making the film known and creating hype for it. 

Film promotion usually includes franchising, merchandising, interviews with key people involved in the film, advertising campaigns, press releases, printed media (newspaper/magazines ect)

An example is this front cover of a star wars magazine which is advertising the Last Jedi. 

Another example would be that in the UK Royal mail released a set of 8 promotional stamps on October 12, 2017. This would build awareness and hype for the film as it is getting people exited for it a months before it has been released. There were also stamps released in Australia which would build international hype and therefore increase the profit of the film.

Exhibition

Exhibition refers to the retail side of film making, it includes public screening, usually in cinemas for paying customers. The poster below is an example of the type of exhibition that took place.

Distribution

Distribution is the selling of films and making it available to the audience. The distribution chain shows us the order in which films are released into different areas usually. However not all films stick to this and some, for example, are released straight onto VOD. This is the distribution chain:

 

Cinema 

↓

Blu ray & DVD & VOD

↓ 

Rental

 ↓

Streaming

↓ 

Pay for view/Network

↓

TV

The Last Jedi was distributed by Walt Disney studio Motion Pictures. It had its world premiere at the Shrine auditorium and the European premier was in the Royal Albert hall. Its release was on December 15 2017, and then 5 months later it was released to home video.