Production Timeline
2018
FEBRUARY TO MAY
- Marketing
- Fundraising
- Pre-Production
- Legal
- Interview Americans soldiers, veterans & surviving family
MAY 15th TO JUNE 15th
- Travel crew to Normandy, France
- Principal Photography of interviews
- Principal Photography of D-Day Commemoration
- Reenactments of key moments
JUNE TO AUGUST
- Organize & tape backup footage
- Commence assembly edit
- Rough edit
- Additional U.S. interviews & photography
- Initial test screening
AUGUST TO SEPTEMBER
- Fine editing
- 2nd test screening
- Additional editing
- Picture lock
SEPTEMBER TO OCTOBER
- Coloring and grading
- Audio conforming of interviews & original soundtrack scoring
NOVEMBER
- Final audio mix
- Final renders
- Initiate festival submissions
- Initiate distribution partnerships
DECEMBER
- Initiate domestic screenings
- Holiday season
2019
JANUARY TO MAY
- Continue marketing & distribution
- Pre-production for 75th Anniversary celebration of D-Day in France
MAY
- Travel crew to Normandy, France for 75th Anniversary
- Premiere screening at the Utah Beach Museum
- Document reactions and follow-up footage
JUNE TO FUTURE
- Compile and edit follow-up footage
- Continue festival screenings
- Distribute to educational institutions
