ABSTRACT
Producers and crews are usually (and understandably) extremely anxious to start the practical work of filming. The check-list below, which makes no attempt to be exhaustive, indicates just how much has to be achieved in terms of production management before an inch of tape or a frame of film has been shot. Purists in the business would, of course, be quick to point out that the section I have described as ‘development’ would not usually be regarded as an integral part of pre-production and certainly not generally part of the work of the Production Manager. While this is true, it seemed to me that in a book aimed primarily at those still at an early stage in their experience of working in television production, it was well worthwhile including some of these preliminaries in the check-list.
