Pre-Production!!! What is pre-production?
It is
important rather say crucial stage of any project. Concept, story writing,
scripting, character designing, voice hover and what not is included.
Production and Post Production stage depends upon this first step. As it is
truly said “If you toil in your First Step and it is accurate and well defined then you can walk rest of the steps nimble and
easy.”
Other than
the major steps described above, there are list of tasks which we need to
execute in this stage. If not, then these small-small things can create a
blunder in the final stage.
Let’s
shed light on the steps involved in Pre-Production
- Concept: Before
making any film, advertising or game, we need to create a concept. Without
the concept, the story will not be able to attract the audience. Take any
media company, say Game Development Studio, Animation Movie Production
Companies, Film Animation Companies, Film Production Company and
other such companies work day and night for concept and title first and
then proceed for the story writing.
- Story Writing: Concept
is ready, title is finalized. Now the writer envisions the story and
connects it with the concept. He draws the focus of the audience towards
the concept and brings out the purpose behind his story writing.
- Script Writing: Now,
time for some action, dialogs and scripts. These three elements are the
punching part of any visual project. Scripts, action and dialogs are
sequenced and written considering the characters and the scene.
- Storyboard: Storyboard
is like a flip book. What action a character performs in a particular
scene is drawn. Though, a rough sketch but storyboard gives a clear
picture of the movements of a character and how the scene is going to look
like.
- Voice Hover : Usually,
in films the characters speak their dialogs but what about animated films?
Voice hover artists record the dialogs of the characters in the first
stage so that when the final character is modelled, the recorded voice can
be integrated during designing it with the final character model.
- Animatic Effects : These
effects are made after storyboard and voice hover. Once character is
designed, the recorded voice is integrated with it for testing purpose
before the final designing and effects.
- Character Design with clay sculpting:
First, artists draw rough sketches of a character. Then character is
sculpted with clay. Sculpting and designing of a character is done to
clear the imagination of the story and type of characters required in a
particular scene. This type of character designing and clay sculpting is
done in large media companies like Animation Production Companies, Game Development Studios, Animation Movie Production Companies.
Hope this
short and precise introduction to pre-production will give you a clear idea
what is preproduction and why it is requisite.
GameYan is
one of the good companies involved in Pre-production. Its recent examples can
be seen in the website page as well http://www.gameyan.com/project.html.
Take a
look on the recent examples,
Project
: Chief’s
Daughter
Category: Animation Film
GameYan
Involvement: Pre-Production
(Finished) and Post production (Running)