Production Timeline
2020
JANUARY
- Script Re-writes
- Edits
- Score revisions
- Audio conforming of interviews & new original soundtrack scoring
- Sound design and mix
- Continued fundraising for finishing funds
FEBRUARY
- Initiate festival submissions
2019
JANUARY TO MAY
- Translate and Transcribe 31 French Interviews
- Script re-writes
- Continued fundraising for finishing funds
- Assembly edit
- Rough Edit
- Initial original soundtrack scoring
- Initial sound design and mixing
MAY
- Travel crew to Normandy, France for 75th Anniversary
- Test rough cut at Museum Focus Group Events
- Document reactions and follow-up footage
JUNE – DECEMBER
- Script Re-writes
- Edits
- Score revisions
- Sound revisions
- Continued fundraising
- More focus group testing
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 NOVEMBER
- Organize & tape backup footage
- Additional U.S. interviews & photography
- Fundraise finishing funds
- Write Script
- Pre-Pro for Dec Pick Up Shoot
DECEMBER
- Pick up shoot in Normandy Dec 1-10
- Organize and tape backup footage
2017
SEPTEMBER
- Pre-Production Scouting Trip
- Plan film, write logline, synopsis, etc…
