HOW A MOVIE IS MADE?

v  Making a movie is spinach to almost any capitalist, because the money he puts in is invested in a gamble. The product may flop like a pancake or it may crack the jackpot.  

v  The capitalist and his money don’t alone produce a movie. Technicians, director, actors, and crew are needed to power the production from the raw materials.

v  Most important in making a movie is the story. The script is the spinal column of the whole achievement.

v  With the working script, director, technicians and crew ready, the whole organization gets into actions. The movie is born now and it grows fast and furious.

v  After players are notified about shooting to take place, at appointed time they report to the scene and on their faces is applied make-up.

v  After last dab of powder, director orders crew and technicians, and lights highlight into life the set and players. He tells actors how to say their lines and where and how to move.

v  Negatives are then rolled, exposed. These find their way into laboratory where they are developed. At shootings, musical parts may be recorded and alchemist into film record, which when used in playback, works like the phonographs disc.

v  While shooting of picture stills are taken, then pictures to be used later as decorative sales exploitation for theater hobbies and panels. Some stills are reproduced into giant posters.

v  Movie then goes to the movie editor.

v  As a movie nears completion publicity men promotes it. Writers spend ink and paper unreeling reams of ballyhoo to draw attention of exhibitors and cinema audiences.

v  Making a movie entails lot of expenses. Auditing of this is necessary so the capitalist know just exactly how much the production cost is, and when movie runs the circuit, the capitalist will know just how much dividends it is turning in.

v  When movie is finished and ready for showing, it is booked.

v  The booked picture is the opened at Grand theater. Grand theater is the index that shows whether a movie is successful or not.

Source: Mowelfund Museum articles / published by CCP