--- title: How films are made: script, crew, sets, editing — a lesson of Mova's school · trees and pragmatics description: «How films are made: script, crew, sets, editing», a lesson of the arts course of Mova's primary school, sentence by sentence with dependency trees and pragmatics. It begins: A film starts as a script, the written plan of every scene and every line, and then hundreds of people turn that paper into p --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/22-how-films-are-made-script-crew-sets-editing/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Arts](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/) / How films are made: script, crew, sets… # How films are made: script, crew, sets, editing Lesson 22 of the arts course of Mova's primary school: 14 sentences, each with its syntax tree and pragmatics. The lessons are written for Mova, and their agreed trees are part of Mova corpus 0.4 (CC BY-SA 4.0). How Mova does on its tests: [the lesson at school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/arts/22-how-films-are-made-script-crew-sets-editing/). - [0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/22-how-films-are-made-script-crew-sets-editing/0/) — A film starts as a script, the written plan of every scene and every line, and then hundreds of people turn that paper into pictures and sound. - [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/22-how-films-are-made-script-crew-sets-editing/1/) — The crew are the people behind the camera: the director decides how it should look and feel, camera and sound teams record it, set builders and costume makers create the world, and the editor puts it all together. - [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/22-how-films-are-made-script-crew-sets-editing/2/) — Films are shot like a jigsaw, not like a story: all the scenes in one place are filmed together, even if one is at the start and one at the end, and the editor puts the pieces in order later. - [3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/22-how-films-are-made-script-crew-sets-editing/3/) — Picture a school film on a tablet: one child writes, one films, one acts and one edits, and it works better than one child trying to be everything at once. - [4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/22-how-films-are-made-script-crew-sets-editing/4/) — People talk about it in their own words: "wack" means bad or weird, "extra" means over the top, and in London "innit" just means "isn't it?" or "right?". - [5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/22-how-films-are-made-script-crew-sets-editing/5/) — A big film can need hundreds or even thousands of people, and the credits at the end list them all. - [6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/22-how-films-are-made-script-crew-sets-editing/6/) — Films are usually filmed out of order to save time and money, for example shooting every scene in one place together. - [9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/22-how-films-are-made-script-crew-sets-editing/9/) — A take is one try at filming a shot; directors often film many takes to get the acting, camera and light right together. - [10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/22-how-films-are-made-script-crew-sets-editing/10/) — A plane flying over or a camera wobble can mean another take, so many takes do not mean bad acting. - [11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/22-how-films-are-made-script-crew-sets-editing/11/) — Many films are adaptations of books, comics or games, and people argue whether the book or the film is better. - [12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/22-how-films-are-made-script-crew-sets-editing/12/) — Film sets are built to look real only from where the camera points; behind, they are often bare wood. - [13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/22-how-films-are-made-script-crew-sets-editing/13/) — A cut is a change from one shot to the next; studies of Hollywood films report that shots have got shorter over the decades. - [14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/22-how-films-are-made-script-crew-sets-editing/14/) — Films often use one city to pretend to be another, because filming there is cheaper or easier, and the crew change street signs so it looks like the right city. - [15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/22-how-films-are-made-script-crew-sets-editing/15/) — Silent films, from before about 1927, had no recorded talking, so actors used big faces and movements; words were shown on cards and music was often played live in the cinema. - ← previous: [Filters, edits and fake photos](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/21-filters-edits-and-fake-photos/) - next →: [Animation: flipbooks, stop-motion, computer cartoons](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/23-animation-flipbooks-stop-motion-computer-cartoons/) - ↑ back to [Arts](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/)