CREATING A PROGRAMME

Hannah Charles

Break it DownWhen creating a show, you need to break it up in order to see all the work that’s needed to go into your programme.The simple break down looks like this:• Pre-production• Production • Post-production

Pre-Production• Doesn’t cost you anything! • Where you do your research – from the comfort of your chair.. Free!• Will be the longest part of your whole programme making

• Planning is everything

A schedule is very important for your whole production. It’s vital that you know when you’re doing pre-production, production and post-production and how long for.. Time costs money!

Pre-ProductionQuestions you need to ask while doing your research:• What is the format?• Who will be involved?• Equipment needed? – hiring?• When is this happening? – how long for?• Location(s)?• Deadline?• Target audience?

The BudgetWho cares about the budget?• The customer commissioner, executive producer, head of the channel• Producer• Director• Production manager

The budget is important to the heads of the departments because time costs money, the equipment is a lot to hire and with their names on the show, they need to create a programme that looks good!

ProductionThis is when you begin to actually make your product. You may do some rehearsals, but by now, all your research and planning will be complete; you will have hired all the necessary equipment and be ready to film.

Money starts to cost the production team when filming begins:• Equipment is being hired• Travel to the location(s)• Hiring of actors• Crew for the equipment are being hired• Possible licences for music

Post-ProductionEditing….Editing…Editing..

• Weeks spent in an editing suite cutting up the footage from production• Offline editing raw footage is copied and edited, without affecting the camera original

film stock or video tape. Once the project has been completely offline edited, the original media will be assembled in the online editing stage.

• Online editing post-production linear video editing process that is performed in the final stage of a video production. It occurs after offline editing. It is editing footage at the original highest quality.

• At the post-production stage, more time is spent in offline editing as it is cheaper, with a final day/week done in online editing.