Among the many aspects for a production are some of the following tasks.

Some of the numerous tasks of film production management.

Actors' Day-Out-of-Days Form: Brief version of the final production board, required by the Screen Actors Guild. Shows the flow of production and actor days worked.

Actors' Production Time Report: Tracks actor's time throughout the day and used to compute compensation, fees, and fines. Required by the Screen Actors Guild.

Breakdown Form: A list of all scenes, referenced by scene number and script location, required in a script, to see how many scenes planned per location.

Call Sheet: Listing and detailed instructions (actors, meals, props, transportation, wardrobe, weather forecasts, and so forth) for all required resources needed for daily shooting, at each location and time. Distributed to all in the shooting sequence to aid schedule.

Cash-Flow Chart: Weekly expenses and needed funds for production.

Cast and Crew: Oversight of hiring and contracts with producer/director as well individual department heads requirements.

Cast/Scene Breakdown Form: A list of all actors and extras required in a scene, referenced by scene number and script names. For actor utilization on a scene.

Change Control: Producer evaluates changes for impact on budget, schedule, and story. Sometimes informal versus formal.

Completion or Guarantee Bond: Financially ensures investors and lenders that a film will be completed with the specified script, budget, and schedule. Fee run from 3% to 5%.

Cover Set: Alternative, interior shooting location for planned, exterior shooting; in case of bad weather or other risk events.

Critical Chain Management: Project management technique used to identify problems or causes that limit throughput of a system. Helps manage risks and schedule.

Cross Plotting: Method of assigning and managing human resources. Allows visual display of daily allocations and availability.

Dailies: Processed film reviewed by crew managers the day after film shooting. Helps ensure story and technical quality.

Deal Memo: Legally binding document made to a final contract from crew to the talent.

Forecasting: Attempt to predict the film’s potential financial success.

Green-light: the project to go ahead, when it ready to begin production

Incentives & Rebates: Determine local, state, regional and national production rebates on expenditures and incentives.

IMDB and Film Credits: Credits for the crew and talent. Recognitions and thank you’s. Location/Scene Location Agreements: Individual homes and locations, town and city to film office agreements.

Location & Behavioral Codes: “Filmmaker's Code of Professional Responsibility” helps minimize impacts of shooting in local communities.

Location Survey: Assistance to location manager in finding shoot sites.

Nonunion Contracts: Employment contracts and releases may be unique.

Organizational Structure: A standard expectation and hierarchy of production roles and responsibilities. Enables quick, efficient work and coordination among crew. However, actual working relations tend to be more complex.

Participation Contact: Contingency where pay (to actors, directors, distribution fees, rentals) is undetermined until film revenues are known. This reduces the financial risk for the Production Company, studio and producers.

Phone, Transaction, Memo Log: Used to record details of all aspects of production including when conversations occur, with whom, what was discussed and decided.

Post Production: Editing, marketing, sales and relations with the studio or production company and any marketing and sales entities.

Preliminary Budget: Based on producer and director agreement on realistic estimates of scope and schedule, plus union-regulated rates/expenses/dues. Prior to negotiation and contracting. For unions, insurance, and bonding.

Pre-visualization: Pre-visualization technique using computers and 3-D animation. Allows a rough draft of film footage and scenes to be created before filming. Mitigates risks by saving time and money during shooting.

Producer’s Insurance Policies: Combines multiple forms of insurance into an annual product. Premium of 2%-3%, depending on risk exposure.

Production Board: Industry standard method of creating a shooting schedule. Large, paper-based display for arranging scenes by daily sequence and required actors by repositionable scheduling strips. Uses screen breakdown sheets and location breakdown sheets as inputs. Digital version is more cumbersome to view. Aids in estimating production.

Production Budget: Determines available financial resources that influence film scope and quality. Dependent upon financing and investment deals, with executive negotiations and control. Changes often. Usually 10% of the budget is designated for a contingency fund in the event or problems, changes, cost overruns.

Production Report: Daily account by the assistant director of shooting, hours worked, script pages covered, and how much film used.

Production or Shooting Schedule: Baseline schedule of scenes to be shot based on the most efficient order possible, and not by linear progression of the storyline. First assistant director is involved. Uses a traditional production board or software equivalent as a display and change device. Usually derived from required locations, then by actor availability.

Radio Handsets and Phones: Used to maintain constant communication and availability of personnel on the set. Facilitates mobility and logistics.

Required Insurance and Permits: Requirements and fees met prior to shooting, including liability, workers’ comp, accident insurance, work visas, city, police, medical, fire department.

Optional or as-needed Insurance: Cast, stars, extras, props, wardrobe, sets, extra expenses, third-party property, equipment, film, cameras, petty cash, office, errors, omissions, excess liability, aircraft, animals.

Risk Rating: Rating of the risk to actors by insurance underwriters.

Satellite Video-Conferencing: Allows directors to monitor and guide shooting remotely and at multiple sites. Helps ensure artistic vision and reduce costs.

Screen Card or Scheduling Strips: Repositionable cards representing blocks of film shooting for scenes. Scene strips are usually grouped by location and time of day, in order to economize set, camera, prop, and lighting setup. Typically affixed to a production board or wall for ease of viewing, and rearranged to optimize and adjust shooting schedules as needed.

Screenplay or Script: The foundation and blueprint for all film scenes, the building blocks of film production, based on a story. Color coding is used to differentiate script revisions. Influences film scope and quality. Scriptwriting software offers the ability to electronically link the script to production elements for a more streamlined process. Script supervisor helps ensure quality. Script may be purchased and already developed well in advance of production. Script legal rights may need to be gained and purchased.

Script Breakdown Sheet/Form: A detailed decomposition of each scene planned in a film, derived from the screenplay. Used as a reference for all of the upcoming production. This is the most important form completed during preproduction. See Appendix H for an outline of contents.

Storyboard: Sketches used to translate the script's textual descriptions of scenes into visual information. Provides initial artistic vision and working plans for art department. Reduces costs by establishing scope.

Technical Storyboard: Sketches used to translate the script's textual descriptions of scenes into visual information. Provides initial artistic vision and working plans for art department. Reduces costs by establishing scope.

Tech Scout: Location tours. Scene is described to the crew on each shooting site. Mitigates risks by saving time and money during shooting, an expensive part of production. Helps ensure artistic vision.

Trans Media: Public relations, marketing, advertisement, merchandise, mass media.

Tracking Software: Software used for centralized scheduling, resource monitoring, costing, accounting, and earned value. Software used to predict attendance and optimize the scheduling of cinematic exhibition of films in theaters.

Union Agreements and Memberships: Screen Actors Guild /Screen Extras Guild structure much of film production practice. Paperwork, time, rules, fees, fines and compliance costs are substantial burdens.

Vendor Relations: Craft Service, Catering, Construction, Props, Picture Cars etc. Establish, maintain, evaluate and resolved any vendor issues.

Wireless Monitors: Real-time, remote screening of live film shooting by key managers. Helps ensure artistic vision and quality.