A screenplay tells a story. A shooting schedule explains how that story will be filmed. A production budget reveals what it will cost. Between those three documents lies one of the most important parts of filmmaking: pre-production. A script may describe a conversation in a crowded restaurant, a car chase through downtown streets, or a […]
A film schedule is not born fully formed. It is built. It starts with a screenplay, then moves through script import, breakdown, tagging, cast records, location planning, shoot days, off days, production strips, stripboards, Day Out of Days reports, one-liners, scheduling reports, budget checks, and finally call sheets. That may sound like a lot. It […]
A screenplay can look deceptively simple on the page. Two people talk in a kitchen.A detective walks into a warehouse.A car pulls up outside a motel.A character runs through the rain. On paper, those moments may only take a few lines. On set, they can become half a day, a full day, or a tiny […]
Every filmmaker starts a project with a version of the movie that exists in their head. The shark works perfectly. Check!The actors are available. Of course they are!The masks are cleared. By God, they are just masks!The horses are saddled. We do have horses, don’t we?The weather behaves. Please tell me it’s not going to […]
