The Audio Visual Production Process What is the

The Audio Visual Production Process

What is the Production Process? �The production process refers to the stages (phases) required to complete a media product, from the idea to the final master copy. �The process can apply to any type of media production including film, video, television and audio recording.

The Production Process �The stages in each medium vary; for example, there is obviously no storyboard in an audio recording. However the same general concepts work for any medium.

Three Main Stages of Production �Pre-production – Planning, Scripting & Storyboarding, etc. �Production – The actual shooting/recording �Post-Production – Everything between production and creating the final master copy

Other Stages of Production �Financing - This happens before pre-production, and involves budget forecasting, finding investors, etc. �Screenplay - This can be considered a separate stage before pre-production. �Distribution - After post-production, delivering the content to the audience (e. g. film prints, CD/DVD, etc).

Shots �The simplest element in video and film �Is an image resulting from a single continuous running of a camera. �A continuous piece of video or film footage �It’s everything you get between pressing “record” and “stop”

Scene �All the action/shots which take place at a certain time and location and comprise a segment of a program

Video �Moving images shown continuously

Audio �A series of sounds which are heard by the human ear

Storyboards �Movie makers draw simple schematics of frames �They use the frames to plan how they want to tell a story �The frames show the correct order of significant objects or actors and the camera’s position

Camera’s positions �Close-ups �Wide shots �High angle �Low angle �Point-of-view