What is a 'production schedule'?

What is a 'production schedule'?

Ben Lyons (Producer) gives expert video advice on: Who is hired during pre-production? and more...

A production schedule is how long it's going to take you to go out and shoot the movie and then edit the movie as well. Sometimes the shoots for films are a week, ten days, thirty days. For most independent films, between twenty and thirty of actually shooting the movie is pretty standard and then however many months of post-production. I just saw a film directed by Adrian Grenier who stars in Entourage, and it's an independent film he shot with his friends before he got famous, in 1999 or 2000. It's the story of him looking for his father in real life and it took him seven years to edit all the footage. The movie took a summer to shoot and seven years to edit. Every independent film has a different timeline. Traditionally, for dramatic films, acted films and feature films, not just documentaries, twenty to thirty days is a pretty standard shoot, while for a studio film you might see fifty or sixty days of production.