How a Film is Made

by Tereza Cz Dvořáková, Nikkarin, Ondřej Beránek

November 2019, 80 pages

A trip into the filmmaking process for curious early and advanced readers.

Everybody knows what a film is. But few can actually imagine how many people and how much time it takes to make a feature film and present it to the audience. Who or what is a Foley? Why do screenplays always come in so many different versions? What exactly does a continuity supervisor do? Nowadays, which tricks are done on camera and which ones on the computer? Why do films need their own architects? Who hides under the mysterious term Cameo? Do location scouts and Boy Scouts have things in common? And what exactly does a film festival do for filmmakers and their films? The publication is a loose sequel to the bestselling How Cinema Was Born (Argo, 2017). It is illustrated richly by Nikkarin, and contains an experimental section showing young readers how to make and distribute a real film from home.