What are the various phases of a reality TV show production?

What are the various phases of a reality TV show production?

The reality show's calendar will start with casting; that's so important that they give it a lot of time. Then you begin pre-production, in terms of working on your locations and organizing your art departments and other things that you'll need for the show. Casting lasts several weeks, usually, and then the pre-production itself is usually only two or three weeks to get people up to speed. The second phase of the reality show is production, and production is when you're filming. For example, you could have fourteen days straight of filming; or like The Amazing Race, you're shooting over a period of thirty days; or like Celebrity Fit Club, you're shooting thirty days out of a hundred. That's production. Post-production of a reality TV show is the third phase. It begins as soon as tapes come back to the shop and they're starting to be looked at. Most shows are being edited while they're being produced. Some shows are being aired while they're being produced, and that sometimes presents problems, if there are people who are watching themselves on TV and they still have episodes to shoot; that can be interesting. Mostly, what happens is we're delivering the reality shows but they're held for error until production is over.