What are the Steps on Making a Movie?
Start with an exceptional script. Next, you’ll need to arrange financing. No script? No money? No movie. Once you secure a signed contract and the money, things really take off. You do not need a big, fancy, corner office, but you do need some place to work and have production meetings, and you’ll want to choose your staff very carefully — executive producer, producer and director are the most important staffers as far as getting the movie actually filmed, promoted and sold. You’ll need to send a staffer off to seek out locations for your movie, and start negotiations with talent. Also at this point, you should be securing production and post production facilities. Once the locations are set, it’s time to arrange for flights, accomodations, rental vehicles, the on-site caterer, set the shooting schedule and you’ll want to check in with City Hall to see what kind of permits you’re going to need. Except for your key personnel, I would wait and hire the production crew in the away venue. Now, you are ready to film your movie.Independent film making is incredibly exciting — the entire industry is. It is a road you will never regret going down.