Today I want to break down a low-budget filmmaking process into five stages. Like any goal, filmmaking is a goal, so you need to break it down into steps or phases. That’s why, I’m going to break down filmmaking into five stages. This way, things become easier when you focus on one stage at a time.
Every film should have a clear goal. For starters, an example is as follows. Make a 10-minute movie Entered 5 film festivals, and more than 100,000 people watched the film online. This will be achieved within 12 months.
President John F. Kennedy said in May 1961
“I think this country should be committed to making that happen These ten years have passed of Send a man to the moon and Return him safely to Earth. It happened in July 1969
It’s a very specific goal with a deadline, and when you set a goal that has a specific time frame and deadline, you’re going to get results.
A good goal for an experienced emerging filmmaker might be as follows.
- Make an 80-minute feature within the next 12 months, then find an audience with 10 or more festival selections and 3 or more awards, and be available on streaming services worldwide within 3 years 3 million people watched this movie.
For beginners making short films
- Make a 10-minute short film, complete it in the next 6 months, then complete it in 18 months, be selected for 10 film festivals, win 3 awards, and have 1 million people watch the film online.
The above two realistic goals have all the parameters required for success. Now that you’ve set your goals, It’s time to break it down into stages.
First stage script:
Everything starts with the script. This should be the only focus for the first month
The first three months of a short or feature film. You can buy or write a script, or you can hire a screenwriter, the choice is yours. When your script is evaluated by a screenwriting expert, make sure you get a score of 7 out of 10 to 10 out of 10.
All my scripts always do this. I always pay for three expert assessments.
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The second stage: filming.
First, you need to decide on your financial approach. If you’re an experienced filmmaker, have had some major success, or you’ve won a huge lottery ticket, then full financing is your best option.
If you’re an emerging filmmaker with one or two short films that have done well, and you’re ready to make your first feature, small-budget financing is the way to go. This also applies to you if you made a feature film that had little or no success.
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The third phase of pre-production: preparation and production of the film shoot.
Once you decide on the pattern, every movie has the same needs, yYou have to lock in the big four,
- throw
- All personnel
- place and scene
- Film equipment.
Each of these areas must be completed. You have to find and target your cast, crew, location, and then book the film equipment. At its heart, this is a filmmaking. Once these areas are completed it is time to organize the shoot Shooting schedules and call sheets and location logisticsSuch as meals and creature comforts.
Phase 4: Shoot the fun parts.
Once you learn how to direct in this amazing film course, you’ll get to shoot and shoot the movie shot by shot as you and the crew shoot it.
A minimum of 3 days is required for short films and a minimum of 16 days for feature films
The fifth stage: post-production.
Once you learn how to edit film, adding music, color, and sound to create your movie, you can save thousands of dollars on post-production. Another option, of course, is to hire experts in their fields. For example, I can do all the editing myself, and I’m pretty good at it. I colorize my own movies and add music from stock sites, but for Sound Post, I hire the best sound designers to complete my movies. This way my movie sounds and looks like a Hollywood movie. Once post-production is completed and the final footage is released, it’s time for the final stages.
Stage 6: Find your audience. This takes time. 
For short films, enter film festivals, win some awards, and get on the top online short film sites. A year later, post it on YouTube and Facebook and get people watching. For feature films, get into film festivals and win some awards, then find a good distributor and get your film released on a streaming service like Prime Video. Then you will be a filmmaker.
After reading the above, you may be saying, “Gosh, that sounds challenging.”
But over time, if you have some good guidance, that’s not the case. You must have guidance and a “how to”
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