How a film is created

 Film production is the process of making a film, from an initial story, idea, or commission, through scriptwriting, casting, shooting, directing, editing, and screening the finished product before an audience that may result in a theatrical release or television program.

Pre-production In this stage, the project's producer finds a story, and after identifying a theme or underlying message, the producer works with writers to prepare a synopsis. Next they produce a step outline, which breaks the story down into one-paragraph scenes that concentrate on dramatic structure. Then, they prepare a treatment, a 25 to 30 page description of the story, its mood, and characters. This usually has little dialogue and stage direction, but often contains drawings that help visualize key points. Another way is to produce a scriptment once a synopsis is produced.

Production In production, the video production/film is created and shot. More crew will be recruited at this stage, such as the property master, script supervisor, assistant directors, stills photographer, picture editor, and sound editors. These are just the most common roles in filmmaking; the production office will be free to create any unique blend of roles to suit the various responsibilities possible during the production of a film.

Post-production Here the rough video of the film is assembled by the film's editor. The modern use of video in the filmmaking process has resulted in two workflow variants: one using entirely film, and the other using a mixture of film and video.
This is the final stage, where the film is released to cinemas or, occasionally, to consumer media (DVD, VCD, VHS, Blu-ray) or direct download from a provider. The film is duplicated as required for distribution to cinemas. Press kits, posters, and other advertising materials are published and the film is advertised and promoted.

Distribution is showing the film on cinema. And the way they've chosen to show it. For example the 3D films are impossible to be pirated well on the internet, because it won't be the same without that 3D effect. That's a convinient way for the cinemas to get their own money from what they do and make you want to go there and pay for your ticket rather than download it and watch it at home.

Exhibition this is the process of the cinemas showing the film, based on how many times it's been viewed and is it selling well. If yes it stays on for a long time and if not, is removed within a week or so.

AS Media Key concepts and analysing them in the Exam

1.What are the Media Key Concepts:

• Representation
• Audience institutuion
• Mise en scene
• Cinematography
• Editing
• Sound

2.What does each one of them represent?

- Representation

• the age
• gender
• ethnicity
• sexuality
• regional identity
• ability/disability
• class/social status of the charachters

-Mise en Scene

• the props used
• costumes, make up
• body language
• location
• light,colours and mainly everything the audience can see on the set

-Cinematography

• shot types
• different techniques of filming such as e,g, tracking, close up shot, medium shot etc.

-Editing

• the adding of sounds effects or digital visual effects to the sequence by the editor to make it look better and more engaging to the audience

-Sound

• the sounds within the world of the film and the added on sound effects or score music, used to make the film more appealing and dramatic.

3. How does the exam go about testing your knowledge of each concept?

- By using and understanding Media Language, we are supposed to list the Key Concepts and analyse the way the producer has used them in the sequence that's been screened .
- We have to explain what each concept contains in the film and how is that representing it as. For example are the characters represented using stereotypes or not, is the mise en scene hinting on the genre of the film and what that is. Does the mise en scene show who are the vilains and who are the protagonists if any. We have to basicaly analyze every one of those aspects and back our opinion up with examples from what we've seen in the sequence.
We have to understand what each concept means so that we can find and analyze them.