The Production Cycle

The production of all media texts follow the same stages

1. Research and Development (end of the script and ready to go)
   

• Based on books
• News stories
• Comics
• Fairy tales
• World events
• People's lives

2. Pre-production (preparing for production) THIS IS THE MOST IMPORTANT STAGE

• storybords
• locations (finding)
  
• casting
  
• scheduling (the first thing to do)
  
• budgeting
  
• testing= camera, tripod and sound.
• -finding sound effects
• -prop list
• -costumes
  
• -equpitment
  
• -actors/extras
• -make up
  
  

3. Production (filming)

4. Post-production (editing the picture and sound)

5. Distribustion and Exhibition.