As you can see from the title, I have zero idea on movie production. So I would like to know what goes on in a production of a movie.
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Only small-time wanna-be directors write the script.
Hollywood corporate execs decide it’s time for a movie and there’s champagne and horse-trading for who gets to do what. If a script already exists, maybe you could get it front of a producer who would love it and push it and eventually the execs would hire a director who would read the script before agreeing.
If you’re a director working on a movie and you need a script you hire a (team of) screenwriters to bang out a script based on… whatever. A book, a story, the director’s “vision”. These people are 9-5 Hollywood workers and typically insiders as someone’s friend or cousin. There’s a reason so many high budget films have complete trash for dialog.
If you’re a small-time wannabe film-maker and wrote a script, you then need to learn to act, get some props and wardrobe, and set up a shoot location. Hire other actors or bribe friends, teach them how to act. Get someone to hold the camera, teach them filmography. Figure out sound recording. Have a cheap test run to figure out what you royally suck at and need to do better on. It’s going to be something. Like background noise, keeping actors in frame, not staring at the camera, props that don’t fall apart. It’s going to be a learning experience.
Do it again, the right way. Then learn video editing, some graphics, slap on some scrolling credits, and then discover you can’t sell the damn thing.
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