1. The Audio Visual Production Process

2. 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.

3. 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.

4. 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

5. 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).

6. 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”

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

8. Video
Moving images shown continuously

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

10. 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

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