The whole process of TV drama production

The whole process of TV drama production is divided into the following steps: pre-production, mainly scripts; filming; post-production.

Pre-production should not be the focus of lz asked, here will not be redundant, but in fact, the pre-production time spent is often the longest, when someone asked to go into detail.

When the script is pretty much done, the producers start looking for a director. Because the director's role in a TV series is more executive than creative, he or she is usually involved at this point, but there is also earlier involvement in the scriptwriting stage, or even in person or with a team to create the script. The director generally has a set of his own film crew, including camera, art, costume and so on. Producers, directors, cameramen, artists, etc. on the roughly shaped script in the shooting style of the discussion, while the actors, while watching the scene, for the work of the visual presentation of the tone, the establishment of the film crew. Drama directors, unlike movie directors, overwhelmingly do not do split scripts.

At the same time, the coordinator should also start to set the general shooting plan according to the preparation of the crew and the amount of scripts, including the shooting arrangement of internal and external scenes, etc. In fact, the coordinator is the most important person in the film production. In fact, the coordinator is a very important position in the film and television production, this position is equivalent to a big housekeeper, according to the needs of the creative staff and the reality of the situation, everything in detail to organize the shooting plan. If the director wants to get into trouble, or if the investor wants to speed up the progress, he or she has to look for her. After the coordinator has done her job, she can basically develop into a producer. After the official start, the coordinator has to arrange the daily shooting plan, every day to shoot a few pages of the script, which several scenes, this is certainly how to shoot how convenient how to come, rather than in accordance with the script order, if the order of filming, the cost of eating.

The above is mainly to shoot the preparatory work, generally this period will not be too long, and the shooting of television drama is not a project all finished and then start the next project. Generally do the former project later, the latter one or even after a few projects to start the preparation, try to put this piece of time is not wasted.

When it comes to the official start of the movie, the schedule is much faster. A thirty-episode drama has about 15 pages of script per episode, totaling **** about 450 pages. There are fast and slow directors, and the one I've talked to is kind of finicky, about 4 pages a day. But generally dramas start with two groups at the same time, with the director of group a personally on board, and an assistant director or crew of the same level on group b. Group a shoots some of the main scenes, and group b shoots secondary scenes, filler scenes, some of the action sequences, and some of the big scenes during group a's shoot, using the same time rented locations and unused actors. So, the actual shooting time could be roughly controlled in 3 to 4 months. Shooting fast is still mainly from economic considerations, a group of less than dozens of people, more than hundreds of people, this wave of people just food and accommodation is a large sum of money, plus venues, props, equipment rental, the actor's schedule, consume a day is dozens of millions of dollars in losses.

The interior and exterior scenes are shot separately and centrally, and the filming location is determined to go to a place where the filming is concentrated to finish the filming. The daily shooting time according to the work habits of each group, I experienced the most ruthless group is 7:00 am to 2:00 am the next day, the daily routine is also 12 to 15 hours. However, there are also easy ones that start at 8:00 and finish at 18:00. Generally, the rough cut is made while filming, so as to save time in post-production, and every night the work notice for the following one to two days is coordinated and determined, and issued to the personnel of each unit. Some of the more performance-oriented directors will use the evening time to rehearse the next day's scenes in advance.

When all the shooting is over, the rough cut is basically finished, and then the director and the editing director will work together to make a fine cut, and the editor will usually set some music in advance, and it will be a lot more comfortable to cut according to the music's mood and point. After the end of editing, the sound and picture work at the same time. Sound is dubbing, sound production and soundtrack although some directors emphasize live sound, but a considerable part of the use of dubbing, actors with professional dubbing with are available. Sound is given on all other than the actor's voice, basically can not be used. Soundtrack is to invite professional composers, according to the finished film compositions, television dramas are generally used repeatedly, rarely every episode of a single do, editing with music foreign and not particularly obvious, can be used. So the TV series often appear some bizarre soundtrack, such as a certain eight-way play with ...... painting is color mixing, stunts, special effects and so on. Not only computer stunt effects, some gangster shots and so on also need to be adjusted by means of masking and other means. After the sound and picture are completed, on the subtitles, batch pick. Even if it is largely completed. But the post staff can not run around, in case you can not pass the review, you have to adjust again, and even a day or two before the broadcast may be out of the situation.

By and large, that's how a TV show works, but each creative team has a different style of working, so the exact process may vary.