Production Company Working

To start a production company or production house is like starting any other business, as it says house so it should be on your top priority to acquire your fix assets like office, camera, lights, microphones, and edit machine, for beginners can always rent their equipment from any other production house. The job of a production company is to evaluate the means and execute the production using the medium of performing arts, film, radio or a television program to convey the message to the audience, which is then again bring to the evaluation to see the results through audience feedback to the producer. Typical production company producer may find a story from books, plays, other films’ inspirations, true stories, original ideas, etc.. Once the theme, or underlying message, has been identified, a synopsis will be prepared. Next a treatment or development is prepared. This is a 35 to 40 page description of the story (in case of teleplay the script should not exceed more than 50 pages of script with dialogue and screen play), its mood and character with dialogue and period of time. The screen play is then written over a period of several months.
Production company then may shot the pilot(a short 10 minutes video containing clips about the story or movie) and present it to potential financiers. If the pilot is successful and the movie is given the green signal, a financial backing is offered, typically from film studios, tv channels or independent investors. A deal is negotiated and contracts are signed. The other way is that the production house puts its own capital in production and after shooting, editing, sells the finished product to those precisely told people.
The owner/s of the production company ( it is common for actors or directors to form their own production companies so they can have more control over their own careers) prepare the pilot with the help of already hired production team which are employee to the company or he may require to outsource the work to be done for the project. The production team is based on the nature of film or project and the budget; depends on the size and type of crew required for the project. Typically, the principal role involved in producing single-camera remote production is called the producer, who is responsible for the overall organization of a production and for delegating responsibility to other members of the production team. The director is primarily responsible for the acting element in the project and managing the creative elements. The assistant director (AD) manages the shooting schedule and logistics of the production including other tasks. The camera operator or videographer or sometimes called shooter is responsible for the visual treatment of the subject matter as well as for the physical operation of the camera. The production assistant is responsible for monitoring audio aids and to set up the lights and providing other general production support. The location provider or manager; since most of the scenes are shot in the predictable environment of a studio but occasionally outdoor sequences will call for filming on location, the production manager manages the production budget and production schedule, he/she also reports on behalf of the production company to the executive producer or financers of the film. The art director manages the art department, which makes production sets and the storyboard artist creates visual images to help the director to communicate his ideas to the production team. the other team members are, the makeup artist/ hair stylist, audio engineer who records and mixes the audio and dialogue, the composer creates the music for the film, the choreographer creates and coordinates the movements and dance, typically for musicals.


Some films also credit a fight choreographer or action director, and the videotape editor who is responsible for executing the producer’s or director’s vision in the process of postproduction editing, the editor has primary responsibility for physically performing the edits, depending on the role of the producer or director, the editor may have much or little responsibility for actually making editing decisions. In many cases, work roles overlap and entire production may be produced by two or three people, with each assuming several responsibilities during the production.
Production company may have several producers or directors to accomplish the job, the person who is overall responsible is known as executive producer, who appoints people and put his capital on the production process and for above line talent which includes director, writer, etc.

The production process is divided into three stages, one is pre-production, which is before the casting and designing sets, includes work on plot, script, and budget estimation, days of shoot, discussions on the project and ideas exchange between director, writer, producer and other team members. Then comes production in which the film is being shot and the post-production which happens between the actual filming and the completed film it also includes edit, color correction, animations, etc.


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The Production Company
Types of Production
Initial Components of Video Field Production
Camera Working and Parts