Due to its innate creativity, the film, music and video industry has a great deal of value to the public. It’s not surprising that so many investors avoid the stock largely believing the risks are too great relative to the reward. What may be less obvious is how difficult it is to manage the video production process well, especially from a time-sensitive production environment.
For smaller organizations who manage to arrange the video production process in the correct order, producing a professional product film is not quite as objective as it appears. Our creative and diligent team members may spend several weeks developing footage presentation boards, layouts and direction but simply not all three can be presented to a studio without huge changes being ordered. The video production process of a film requires special attention to the most fundamental elements of your budgetary needs.
Follow these steps and you’ll save yourself time, energy and potentially money; Bear in mind to appreciate these stages in the order listed to avoid you spending way too much time with a studio audience.
1. A Video production process has to be completed in an efficient and effective manner without sacrificing quality. Using the most important financial resources, such as post production, and keeping things short and simple. It will save everyone involved hundreds of hours and countless man hours.
Finally welcome to the final stage of the video production process in the digital age. Sometimes things happen that are out of your control, under your control or in spite of your keen grasp: studio interest changes, personnel change, equipment change, and of course, sometimes, technology changes. But with the right approach, you can avoid these traps.
2. Editors are used to working off a script with a list of notes with no sort of direction. This may cause problems when the line producer calls after hours and asks for his post production report. This is important to remember: solutions or problems will lie with the post production team, not your video producer or studio. This is where experience will help you a lot in understanding your needs and knowing how to deal with them when they arise.
3. Consider pre-production as somebody giving feedback after the shoot and giving them an idea of what is to go into the wrap or alternate camera. Later on describe your Pre video production process in writing and get everyone to sign it.
4.Keep in mind, Inexperienced or a lack of knowledge, doesn’t hurt to pay for experienced, well-organized production support. The most successful organizations will have a production manager who will be present and dedicated to the project to ensure its success. But that can be more expensive. But like everything, if it requires more effort from the producer and studio some budget can be optimized.
5. Before you get too far, your video production process should be agreed upon by both parties. Everything from script to production support, cost, planning, schedule, etc, should be well thought out at the start. If they didn’t agree on each point, there will certainly be different answers later.
6. If the production cost has to be funded for by someway, make sure you have a line producer who is also charged with the cost. Getting those expenses for their part, even though they may not be part of the expense themselves, will be the difference between a surely successful film, and over budget.
A wise producer will not be finished with a project before even realizing what he/she can deliver. True brainstorming can be the answer to quicker problems. A good film budget is used for this, It is money well spent and well estimated.