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In the process of film making there are three steps to making a film; Pre-Production, Production, and Post Production. All of these steps will be vital to what you need to do for making a film that will meet the expectations of you, and your audience.

The first step of the film making process is Pre-Production. This is the beginning of your long journey to making a film. You first want to think of your ideas and write down footnotes so when you write the script you should already have the ideas written down. While writing you script you want to have; a setting, characters, a plot, rising action, a climax, and falling action. The setting is the main place that most of the video will be filmed. If there is no main setting make sure that everything transitions well. For example your character should not be at school in California for one shot and then in Antarctica in the next scene without them or the narrator explaining why they are going there. Your characters should have traits and personalities that are very easy to figure out. If you character have dry humor you have to make sure that they are using their humor enough that people know it is supposed to be funny. It is the same way if the character is evil, you have to show that the character is evil with either their attire, or the famous evil laugh. Your plot is literally your entire idea on the video. Like if your video is about a robot destroying a planet then that is the plot. Make sure that your plot is well explained and that you are able to represent your plot in a very good way. The rising action is the beginning part of your video. This will lead to your climax. In the rising you are trying to build up suspense to your climax. If you see any video, movie or short film they all have a rising action that will lead to the climax. It doesn't have to be suspenseful it just leads up to it. The climax is the part of the video that will make the most sense. This is when everything that happened in the rising action pieces together to make the climax. As your climax starts to calm down it should turn into your falling action. Your falling action is the part of the video that sums everything up. This is when either the narrator or the main character can explain an epilogue or tell about what happens to the characters after the climax. Once you are finished writing the script you should go over the script and make sure that your script is what you want. You should start to cast for the actors and actresses for the film. Once you have your entire cast you should meet up with all of them to explain the script so that everyone understands and agrees with your video.

The second step of filmmaking is probably the most important part of your film making process. Production is pretty much self explanatory, it is when you start to produce or make your film. In this step you will need all of your equipment, your equipment is a vital part in your film making because that is what produces the film. The first thing that you will need; obviously, is a camera, specifically a video camera or a camera that can film video. The price range for a camera can range from twenty five dollars to one hundred thousand dollars. The price that you pay for your camera will specify the quality that you are getting. If you are just making a home video or an independent production the best camera for you to get would probably be a DSLR camera. Most of these cameras can shoot High-Definition video and also take pictures. If you are trying to make a feature film it is recommended that you use a higher end camera that will be able to shoot 2k film to 4k film. Once you have the camera that can fit your needs, you should get some type of audio device. Either an audio recording device, or a microphone. You can get a microphone from a huge range of price. Just like your camera you should get a microphone that fits your needs. There are many different types of microphones; handheld, USB, shotgun, directional, wireless, and lavalier. After you get a microphone you should look into getting some kind of lighting system. Like cameras and microphones there are many different kinds of lights and lighting systems. Probably the most popular are soft box or LED lights. The reason that these lights are so popular is because they emit the most light. There are about twenty different lights and lighting systems that you can use that will fit the need for your film. Now that you have all of your equipment you need to start filming your video. This part is a very tedious point in the process of film making. When you start filming you should stick to the script and story board that you have created, only make changes if you absolutely have to. Making a change to your script will cause you to have to initiate that change tell everyone and then make sure that the change goes well with what you have already created. Once you are finished you filming go over all of your film. Always remember that you can never film too much, don't try to rush your filming make sure that you have thoroughly filmed all that you need.

Now you are finished your Production part of the film making process and now you are moving to Post Production. This is when you are editing all of the film and animation that you have produced and made. Putting animation into your film will make it look a lot more professional. You only need to put animation into your film if it is necessary. Post Production is the part of the process that you are spending the most on the computer and this will take some time but if you are very thorough with it, you will appreciate what you did for this video. One thing that you will need for editing is a video editing software. There are hundreds if not thousands of video making software but again what you pay for is what you will get. Your computer may also be a big factor for when you are editing. You need to be able to hold the High Definition footage that you just filmed and if it is not saved right then you need to either get a new computer or find a way that you can save your footage to be able to be compressed in a certain way that you will not damage the footage.

Now that you know all of the steps to film making, you can go out and make your own home videos feature films or even a movie.

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