Pre-Production

 Pre-production takes part before you start to shoot a film. In pre-production you hire cast and crew, decide upon a script and sort out the finance for the film. You design and storyboard you film and decide upon which actors and actresses you want to use in your film, and also the most appropriate locations for the film. This is also the stage when you work out all the budgeting for the film and how you are going to finance teh film. So sorting out sponsors or raising money is all a part of the pre-production process.

There are many places you could go to find cast and crew, that includes asking family and friends. However, there are casting agencies where you could look for cast and crew, a few can be found online or in the phone book.
A local casting agency for Cumbria is Lakeside Castings, which is based in Carlisle and covers the whole of Cumbria and the Border regions., this is a link to their website http://www.lakesidecastings.com/ . For some national casting agencies you have http://www.uk.castingcallpro.com/index.php, where you can search actors and actresses within the United Kingdom.

http://www.kftv.com/group-KG04.html is a website where you can hire out film equipment. This website is a worldwide site, but you can chose to view rental companies that are UK based only.

For costumes you could make them yourself and it means you do not have to pay extra if you damage them, but if you wanted to hire costumes out there are places who will rent out costumes at a price. Struts partystore is based in Carlisle and rents out costumes http://www.struts.co.uk/.

Making a film does not need to cost alot of money, however there are many ways you could get money for your film. You could do a fundraiser or ask people to sponsor your film, if the film was a big production then you could have people invest in your. One way you could get money is go to the Arts Council and ask for funding, http://www.artscouncil.org.uk/.

When it comes to finding locations, several issues may arise and with may bring some problems. One such issue could be that the land you wish to shoot may be privately owned, and so special permission may need to be sought in order to film on that particular location. Another issue may be that the location could get affected by the weather. When you select a location it may look fine and perfect, however if the weather changes, the location may also change.