Preproduction involves planning all aspects of a film, video, or music project including writing a script, developing character analyses, storyboarding scenes, and creating equipment and prop lists. This planning phase is crucial as it establishes a guide for the project and prevents issues like not having a clear vision or forgetting needed items during production. Preproduction lays the groundwork to ensure the project is shot efficiently and the director's vision is accurately realized.

1. Why should you do
preproduction
Pre-production is the planning phase for the entire film ,music or video. It’s where
you take your ideas and inspirations and write them down as a guide for yourself and
for your piers to follow.
This is a crucial phase of the entire process. You can liken preproduction to the
business plan in starting a business. You need a business plan. If you jump in without
a plan, you’ll most likely end up scratching your head at the end of the project,
wondering why you hadn’t planned things out more carefully.

2. Preproduction could include

3. • Script
• There’s a lot to think about when you’re running a film shoot, and not having some sort of outline
of events will get you way behind schedule before you can even say ACTION. First, and foremost,
you need a script. If you don’t have a story to shoot, then how do you plan to film anything? Work
shopping the script into a clean, concise message whether it be a narrative or an informational
video

4. • Character analyses
• The advantage of this is that it not only structures the story of the film, video, music, etc., but it allows
guides the actors/cast to understand and correctly portray there intended characters and grasp the
essences of the character's. This is the difference from having your vision accurately done.

5. • Storyboarding
• Story boarding is probably the next stage you would want to take after your script, I say this because what
is the use of a script if don’t have a clear vision of what actions or events will take place and its mise en
scene.

6. • Equipment and prop check
• It is crucial to have check list. With this you and your piers can easily manage what is needed for the set
and this counters the effect of a brain hammering nuisance which derives from looking for or misplacing
needed props and equipment . Its like if you got o the grocery store and don’t have a checklist, you end up
not getting everything you wanted and coming back for it is a nuisance. .