Making a film can sometimes seem daunting. There are so many details, so much technology, so many questions, so many people doing so many different tasks. But it's ok. You don't make a film by doing everything at once, you bring it to life by going through it a little at a time, step by step  It's a creative path that begins with an idea and results with something you can share.  Of course the beauty of this creative path is that is highly transferable to projects and interests that students will have in their lives, and in the act of making a film, they discover they are people who can take their ideas and share them with the world.

So in talking about filmmaking, I find it is helpful to chunk it down into five phases. It could also be done in three, or ten. I'm going for five, it's worked for me so far.

The five phases of the filmmaking process I talk about on this site and in my resources are:

1. Development  (developing the idea and the project)

2. Pre-production (planning, storyboarding, writing the script, planning a shooting schedule)

3. Production (the actual video production and gathering of sound and images)

4. Post-production (editing the video, adding the audio, creating titles, effects, finishing)

5. Distribution (showing it to an audience, local, global and all points in between)

More details for each of these steps, along with resources, will be found  on their specific sub pages.

Have fun!