Production Processes

Brief Video Production Process

This process can be broken down into several parts to make it easier to distinguish what you should be doing at each stage of the process. See the following diagram:

As you can see, there is an obvious increase in the effect to the finished product if you decide to change it towards the end of the project. And a far more creative outcome is achievable if more time is spent on the planning stages at start of the project. By saying this I don't mean that the concept phase is the most important, but the more time spent within the earlier planning stages will result in the best outcome.

Here is a simple system to follow: 

1. Generate some ideas
2. Test the ideas (show a few friends and gauge their reactions)
3. Evaluate the results. 
4. If good results are achieved then you can move onto the next stage, back to number one.

Try to describe the look and feel of the final video, firstly in your imagination, and then put it on paper (sometimes a good idea isn't so great in reality). Make a storyboard and write some scripts, if you have a good idea for a scene make sure to take a note of it somewhere, even if it isn't used in the final production it could be used on your next. 

Remember planning goes a long way in the production of a film. The worst thing is to get to the post production process of using Adobe after effects and Encore (we will go into later in this blog), and thinking,"I wish I had done that differently". By then it is too late.

Next week...Photoshop