Status on the Movie- Preproduction almost done - Waiting for Production to start

Long time since I have posted on this blog.

Ok, here is the status on the Movie. Any movie goes thru five main stages :
Development.
- Screen play is written and the story board made ready .
Pre-production. -
- Cast ( actors, directors, music direction etc ) is chosen
- Location is chosen
- Places to distribute are chosen


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; 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").

Sales and distribution. The film is screened for potential buyers (distributors), is picked up by a distributor and reaches its cinema and/or home media audience.
For the complete article you can check - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Filmmaking

The status is as follows.

1. We are ready with the screen play - Thanks to Roli and me ;)
2. The four primary actors are chosen and these include ( Neelam, me, Vinod and Kaviraj )
3. Rehearsals are going on pretty well.
4. Music direction team is getting formed consisting of Brewin , Rahul's friend, Prakash's friends.
5. We have Rahul who will be taking care of Production
6. Location for shooting is not quite finalized ( but we have liked the Malleshwaram station ).
7. Sent a mail to Penguin India for copyright permissions for using the Ruskin Bond story.

Now excitedly waiting for the Production budget and Schedule from Rahul , so that the actual production can start.

There are many more links I would like to post here regarding the knowledge I have gained in the process of learning the film making. Will do that in another post.

Bye for now.. :)