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Good morning, ladies and gentlemen! Let’s start this introduction to filmmaking with a simple question: How many of you have seen a movie this week? It doesn’t matter if it was at the theater or just on your own TV... Uh-huh, just as I thought; almost all of you have.
    Of course, most of us love the movies—the magic, the escape that they provide... but most of us rarely stop to think about the process of making a movie. Just what does it take to get that movie from the idea stage to the final product? What are the decisions that must be made? What problems are encountered? Exactly how does a movie studio go about making a movie? These are precisely the topics that we will be exploring today.
    There are six basic steps that are normally followed in the production of a full-length film. I’ll outline them for you.
    The first step is rather obvious... to make a film you must have an idea... a story... some topic for the project. The studio must find a property. That’s a key word, folks—property, p-r-o-p-e-r-t-y. You all know the common meaning of this word, of course, but in filmmaking the word "property" has a very specific meaning. A property is the story on which the movie will be based. OK, it’s the story on which the movie is based. You are probably wondering why we call it a property... Well, it belongs to someone; it is their property and must be acquired by the studio, sometimes for quite a large sum of money.
    There are basically two kinds of properties. The first is an original story that has never appeared anywhere before—never been in a book, or magazine, or another film. In other words, the story was intended from the very beginning to be made into a movie. Star Wars is one good example of this type of property.