Once you have an idea for your video the next step is to make a plan.
This is the pre-production process.
Pre-production is extremely important.
It's something that helps you production in post-production all run much much smoother because you've
gone and you've had the foresight to know what you're getting into just for this course alone.
We've been outlines.
We've done scheduling.
We've gone back on the islands we've written scripts.
I mean it takes a lot to make this all happen but now that we're here shooting it we know what to expect.
We know what we're trying to get and we just need to film it pre-production for us includes things like
creating a timeline creating equipment and personnel lists and also creating a budget.
All of these things together can be put together as a treatment if you're doing a more professional
shoot with a client.
This is something you might want to be presenting to your client.
It can also be used as reference so that you can keep track of everything you're doing while you're
shooting.
Setting up a timeline is an important part of your pre-production process.
Now this is going to look different from your feature length narrative to your YouTube channel timeline
but for any type of video it's important.
Let's look at YouTube though because I think a lot of you watching this video will be starting your
own YouTube channel.
It's so important to have a schedule on YouTube or really any social media platform when it comes to
video putting out consistent video is one way to grow your audience faster because people will expect
and know that you're coming out with more content on a weekly or a monthly or bi weekly basis.
Now there's no perfect rule for how often you should be posting but once or twice a week is a great
rule of thumb.
So once you know that you want to be posting videos once a week or twice a week or whatever it is you
can come up with a timeline for how long it will take to create that video that is going to include
things like planning out the video shooting the video and editing the video.
And any time it takes to put it online and publish it and actually do this.
Start from the end.
When do you want to publish a video.
If it's Monday and you want to publish on Friday think about when you want to shoot it maybe you want
to shoot it on Monday or Tuesday.
When are you going to edit it.
When are you going to set it up online and maybe you can do it on one day but just start to think about
how big what the scope of your product is and work backwards to create your own timeline.
And next you'll need to think of your crew and equipment.
So who's going to be on the set with you.
Do you have someone to help with lighting camera audio who's engaging with the subject and these can
all be covered by one person or they can be a whole team of people.
Alongside that you need to know what equipment you have or workwomen you'll need to rent.
Do you have your own camera do you have lighting can you use natural lighting.
You know there's so many different tools and toys you can play with but when you first started to use
what you have use what's available to you and really focus on your story focus on what's in front of
your camera now that you figured out everything you need to shoot this you can create a budget basically
the budget includes your costs from beginning to end.
That means paying for production and post-production.
So for the total budget things to think about our equipment crew transportation fees food postproduction
such like editing or assets like creating new graphics and also music composition and potentially distribution
because this can all seem a little daunting but we're going to walk through our pre-production checklist
in the next lesson.