What does a movie script look like once it’s broken down?

What does a movie script look like once it’s broken down?

Well when you break down a movie script you have many components so lets break them down to see what goes into a movie production.

Preproduction priorities are as follows:

Funding must be procured for the film first or at least enough to hire the director and camera director

Hire Lawyers to protect the integrity of the film and prepare necessary contracts for actors and crew members.

Hire accounting firm or use your bank firm to create billable items for taxes and proper accounting and payroll procedures for the film.

Director and camera director must be hired first.

You don’t have casting first off, instead you have shooting locations where the movie will be filmed to choose. This could be broken down into many filming locations based on the script scenes.

Then once you have the locations chosen,

You then have to decide on props to use in the shots.

Historical data needs to be researched to help with costumes, character language and protocols for each character

Costumes have to either be chosen or designed

Storyboarding has to be created.

Casting company must be hired.

Individual cast members has to be chosen for each character

Cinematography personnel has to be hired

Hire Construction crew if sets need to be created

Grips need to be hired

All set personnel has to be hired

Accounting personnel must be hired

PR people has to be hired

Casting assistants must be hired

Catering hired

Clean up crew hired

Fine Tune script

Create Storyboard

Admins create character bibles

The above list can take from six months to a year to set up then the project turns into the production stage

Then you go into Production:

Create filming schedule and schedule who is to be where and what actors are needed for each shoot

Schedule filming equipment to be ordered and delivered to each shooting location and for how long.

Catering for staff and actors ordered and scheduled to be delivered to each shooting location.

Trailers for actors to be ordered and delivered.

Make Up Artists ordered for each location.

Transportation for Actors and crew from Airports to shooting location.

Hotel Rooms acquired for staff and actors.

Assistants to create and distribute character bibles for each actor and deliver copies of script changes to actors.

Hiring of extras in each shooting location as needed

Then you have postproduction

Gather all footage from each shoot

Decide on music for opening, various scenes throughout the movie and the ending

Have postproduction editors begin to piece the movie together based on the script and storyboard.

Create 4 teaser short trailers for public relations use.

Create list of film showing location and book said locations.

Create postproduction budget for both advertising, trailer placement, and travel budget for actors to be on location for premieres.

Create Royalty account to pay everyone who negotiated a royalty or point program to be paid out after the movie is completed and starts to make money.

There you have the breakdown my friends. Making a movie is not just as simply turning on a camera and grabbing film, there’s a lot more to it in the long run.

Elizabeth Kilbride is a Writer and Editor with forty years of experience in writing with 12 of those years in the online content sphere. Graduating with an Associate of Arts from Pheonix University kin Business Management, then a degree in Mass Communication and Cyber Analysis from Phoenix University, then on to Walden University for her master’s in criminology with emphasis on Cybercrime and Identity Theft and is currently studying for her Ph.D. degree in Criminology, her work portfolio includes coverage of politics, current affairs, elections, history, and true crime. In her spare time, Elizabeth is also a gourmet cook, life coach, and avid artist, proficient in watercolor, acrylic, pen and ink, Gouache, and pastels. As a political operative having worked on over 300 campaigns during her career, Elizabeth has turned many life events into books and movie scripts while using history to weave interesting storylines. She also runs 6 blogs that range from art to life coaching, to food, to writing, and opinion or history pieces each week.