Lately I find myself explaining the filmmaking process frequently. It’s an interesting conversation. A lot of my family and friends helped out with the short comedy we made last month, and they were surprised by how much work went into one day of filming (ohhhh, little do they know that’s just part of it, eh?).
So I’ve been searching for a visual that would explain the process succinctly. This morning I looked online for a entirely too long and I didn’t find much. I googled and googled but kept coming up with something close but not quite what I want.
I did, however, find some cool flow charts that were used to promote Canal+, a French TV channel. They were some of the favorites I found online during my search today. Check out all of them below (or where I found them originally) and enjoy!
Source: theinspirationroom.com
Filmmakers might appreciate this amusing analysis of a film producer’s job by Ira Glass:
You’re right! I definitely enjoyed watching it. Thanks for the suggestion, Vivian. 🙂
It’s hard for people to understand that this is a job. I worked in Post. Try explaining the it takes hundreds of hours to just “Mix” the Dialogue, Music, Effects for a feature. LOST came out to about 1 hour of mixing per minute of show. Most people think they’re hearing the “In Camera” sound. On LOST not much of the audio came from the location. Too much background noise filming on a beach or in a jungle that happened to be near a highway.
Oh my goodness, I can’t imagine mixing sound on LOST. You’ll have to tell me all about it!
Mixing sound on ABANDONED ALLIES was tough, mostly because I had some audio troubles while filming interviews. I was so grateful to have a pro help mix sound after we got picture lock. He did such a great job making it sound infinitely better in the final cut of the film!