The Creative Process in Film

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With this short but very interesting and informative class I have just scratched the surface of the what it takes to make a full fleged film. It takes much more than I had presumed to make a movie in Hollywood. The number of people that it takes to make a minute of a movie let alone the entire movie was astonishing to me. There are many things that it takes to start making a movie but without an idea of some sort there is no movie to be made.

A crew includes a screenwriter, whose job it is to provide the written blueprint version of the entire film. This is basically the starting point for any movie. Next there is the producer. There are many types of producers; executive producers, co-producers, assistant producers and line producers. They all do very different things. Some are the producers are responsible for raising the funds for the movie while others are responsible for the production that goes on during the filming of the movie and still other producers are in charge of what physically goes on the set. Then it is time for the director. The director is in charge of the actors. The director works with the actors to visually bring to life what was written on the screenplay (Fortunato, Who Does What on a Film). Now the idea needs to come together. The idea of writing, “what you know” is not always true and writing, “what you come to know” is in fact a more accurate way to write. Other good ways to formulate ideas are to use existing plays, novels, short stories, life stories, new articles, or even past TV shows and film. When using existing work a person needs to make sure that one secures the copyrights before starting write. Securing the copyrights does not mean one is finished yet. Now a person needs...

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...ce during the end of the movie. The whole time there is a tension that is not released until to final fight and you find out who is going to get the cube, the decepticons or the auto-bots (Valenti, 107).

Works Cited

Fortunato, Joe. "Development" FMP 201. Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ.. Lecture.

Fortunato, Joe. "From Script to Shooting Schedule" FMP 201. Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ. . Lecture.

Fortunato, Joe. "Production" FMP 201. Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ. Lecture.

Fortunato, Joe. "Wrap" FMP 201. Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ. Lecture.

Fortunato, Joe. "Post-Production" FMP 201. Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ. . Lecture.

Fortunato, Joe. "Distribution" FMP 201. Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ.

Valenti, F. Miguel., Les Brown, and Laurie Trotta. More than a Movie: Ethics in Entertainment. Boulder, 2000. Print.

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