Production -  There are five phases of production common to most professionally produced common to most professionally produced motion pictures. These are development, pre- production, production, postproduction, distribution. 
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Pre- production - In general  he pre production phase encompasses all aspects of preparation that are performed before the camera starts to roll. Some aspects of pr production include:

• Screen writing 
• Story boarding 
• Funding
• Assembling 
• Casting 
• Costume Design 
• Location Scouting 
• Set Design 
• Properties 
• Scheduling  

Post Production -   Processing, Printing, and transferring

The first few steps of post production are routine requiring more techniqual knowledge than creative decision making:
Processing: Developing the camera negative

Printing: Creating dailies on DVD or a work print for the director and crew to see
       Transferring: Film transfer or Telecine to video for  editing