How Films Are Made

The film cycle includes 4 main stages which are: Production, Audience Consumption, Market & Exchange and Distribution.

Production

• Pre Production: is something that happens before everything has begun such as research, location planning, the crew, storyboarding and budget.
• Production: is where everything comes together from the Pre Production and has been put together to create what they need. Such as the crew, equipment, cast, setting.
• Post Production: is where the editing takes place such as adding certain effects, sound/music. Editing the paste of the film and also advertisement to promote the film such as billboards, posters and trailers. Adding titles and graphics. Re-shooting certain scenes if needed.

2. Marketing & Exchange

In this stage its all about the film makers making the audience aware of the film and so they start promoting things such as releasing the soundtracks of their movies, putting out products such as t-shirts and bags to get the audience excited about the movie which will also help gain the film a lot of popularity and attention prior to its release. They also put out posters and trailers to tease the audience and get them excited for whats to come.

3. Distribution
Distribution is when the film is ready to be shown in the cinema and is the final stage of the film processs, for audience consumption and delivering the content to the audience. Once the distributers secure the date it will be released and what kind of cinema it will be shown in. The distributers have to had made sure that they had created a buzz for the film to get the audience wanting to go and watch it when its released. The film is  then released for some certain about of weeks depending on if it does good or bad, if it does good they extended how many weeks it gets shown because of high demand.

4. Audience Consumption
Audience consumption is very important when it comes to film making because they are the ones that are going to view the film and the reviews are the ones that better, because it can turnish the reputation of the film or help the film do really well. Things such as 'Word of mouth' someone might say the film was good and influence others to go and watch but on the other hand some may say it wasn't good film and advice people to not watch it, so what the audience can influence people.