The things to know before producing a video project

If you want to produce a video then it is obvious that you’ll first want to see is a video producer. For this, you will also need to have knowledge about what a video producer does exactly.

A video producer is mainly involved with working in professional video production services and helps to create a video as per your requirement as well as purpose. They take the responsibility of dealing with each and every aspect of video production starting right from concepts to delivery.

Work of a video producer

Well, to talk about the work of a video producer there are literally many things that he does. There are many phases of video production and a video producer has their own role to play in each phase.

Pre-production

Under pre-production comes everything that is necessary to do before filming. It includes the following-

·         Budgeting

·         Developing a concept

·         Script development

·         Storyboarding

·         Shot list

·         Crew coordination

·         Talent scheduling

·         Specialty services (like auditioning actors, obtaining props, working with voice actors)

·         Location scouting, booking and scheduling

·         Graphics concept development

·         Client communication

Thus, you see a video producer has to do a lot of things. He will do most of the above thing or all of it. If you are the client, the video producer will first provide a budget for approval and then he will go on to develop a concept as well as the script for making a  creative video productions ltd. After the script gets approved, the video producer will go on to create a storyboard and the shot list. He will have to schedule his crews and the location of the shooting. After this is done, a the video producer will inform the client about all this along with any other pre-shoot information.

For a more complicated project that involves a more than one video, complex graphics, longer duration, actors, lighting, location, a drone etc. For such projects, a video producer will delegate some of the pre-production tasks and manage the crew members in such a way that everything is ready on the final shoot day.

Production

Production refersto everything that happens on the day of video shooting and it includes the following tasks-

·         Load in

·         Set preparation

·         Camera set-up

·         Makeup

·         Teleprompter set-up

·         Talent prepping and coaching

·         Filming per shot list

·         Continuity

·         Catering

·         Gear tear-down

·         Load out

While production is being done, most of the physical tasks that are involved is done by the video crew members. The video producer’s job is to provide oversight, create an interface with the client, conducting  interviews, and then at the end, he makes sure that everything is arranged in the right manner.

Post-production

Post-production is a part of a production that mainly refers to the whatever is done after the shooting of the video. Basically, the video producer has to make sure that the footage that has been made is well ingested and also backed up.He will also have to supervise the video editing and some producers work on editing themselves if needed, work with their client and do all the necessary revisions, and then go on to make sure that the final video is delivered just as it was required by the client.