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Reading Comprehension - Filmmaking


Develop your reading skills. Read the following text and answer the comprehension questions


cinemaFilmmaking (often referred to in an academic context as film production) is the process of making a film. Filmmaking involves a number of discrete stages including an initial story, idea, or commission, through scriptwriting, casting, shooting, editing, and screening the finished product before an audience that may result in a film release and exhibition. Filmmaking takes place in many places around the world in a range of economic, social, and political contexts, and using a variety of technologies and cinematic techniques. Typically, it involves a large number of people, and can take from a few months to several years to complete.

Film production involves three major stages:

  • Pre-production—Preparations are made for the shoot, in which cast and film crew are hired, locations are selected, and sets are built. The Development stage, in which the ideas for the film are created, rights to books/plays are bought, etc., and the screenplay is written, occurs before Pre-production.
  • Production—The raw elements for the finished film are recorded.
  • Post-Production—The film is edited; production sound (dialogue) is concurrently (but separately) edited, music tracks (and songs) are composed, performed and recorded, if a film is sought to have a score; sound effects are designed and recorded; and any other computer-graphic 'visual' effects are digitally added, all sound elements are mixed into "stems" then the stems are mixed then married to picture and the film is fully completed ("locked").

Source: Wikipedia

Comprehension

  1. Production stage includes recording the main elements of the film.
    a. True
    b. False
  2. Stems include sound and visual elements of a film.
    a. True
    b. False
  3. When a film is locked, this means that it is completed
    a. True
    b. False

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