Whats your film workflow?

Based on a lot of trial and error (mostly error) my flow has been like this for my most recent projects. Still working out the bugs, but it's a much better approach than when I first started:

1) Come up with idea for script and write a rough outline
2) Figure out the basic resources I'd need to produce the film (technology, actors, crew, locations, props, costumes, money, etc) and compare that list to what I have and what I don't.
3) If what I don't have isn't feasible to obtain, move on to new idea and file this one away for later.
4) If I have everything or it is reasonable to assume I can get what I don't have, write full version of script. Even if I am doing an episodic project, I will write a whole season before I even get into casting and I have a rough outline in mind for future seasons. It can be changed/modified later if it needs to be, but if you are the writer as well as the producer/director/actor/editor, it becomes even more overwhelming than normal.
5) Simultaneous: Script Review/Story Revisions and Casting. This is also where I usually start marketing.
6) Simultaneous: Props, Costumes, Locations Attainment
7) Rehearsals--this is where the second round of rewrites usually begins, when people start reading it out loud. Those rewrites are usually line-focused--all major changes to the story arc should have already happened
8) Fundraising
9) Production
10) Editing
11) Scoring/Sound
12) Release

I might be forgetting things, but that is the basic workflow.

Already I know that in the future I will start marketing and maybe start doing a little bit of fundraising while I am writing. However, I guess you can't really start fundraising too early since might not trust that the project is actually going to happen if all you have is a script and no cast, crew, technology etc....though to get cast-crew-technology it helps to have access to money. Catch-22.

I'm working on my first feature right now so that's all I have to go on, but here it is:

- brainstormed story idea with lead actress already in mind
- outlined screenplay with free locations in mind
- wrote screenplay over long period of time
- started putting together key cast and crew while script was being written
- started buying/making major props
- finished first draft, let people read it, revised and re wrote more drafts
- finished casting, location scouting
- secured some additional funding
- scheduled shoot dates
- bought equipment
- started shooting

*when we finish shooting*

- edit footage
- grade footage
- edit sound
- ADR, sound design
- sound mix

- cut trailer
- use trailer for crowd funding
- use extra money for buying music rights
- submit to festivals

- brainstorm ideas
- write several shorts with locations in mind
- pick the one which annoys the least amount of people
- finesse and lockdown screenplay
- write approximate timeline
- get location for the casting
- casting calls
- get locations locked down
- work out production timeline (including necessary kit)
- run around screaming rather a lot
- casting
- lockdown scheduled shoot dates
- communicate scheduled shoot dates
- shoot


*when we finish shooting*

- edit footage
- balance sound
- foley
- add sound FX
- run around screaming a lot
- music
- mix sound
- grade footage

- cut trailer
- run around screaming a lot
- submit to festivals

Mine's probably a little unique...

Friday night:
- Brainstorm ideas
- turn best idea into a story
- write treatment
- call actors, select locations, plan shoot

Saturday morning:
- scout location
- meet with actors to run through story
- start shooting
- write & rewrite script

Saturday night:
- finish shooting
- convert & sync footage

Sunday morning:
- rough cut footage
- brainstorm title ideas

Sunday afternoon:
- final cut
- sound mix
- color correction
- titles & graphics
- deliver finished film

Later that week:
- theatrical release
- additional post as needed

The following week:
- online release

Sometime in the far, far future:
- Profit!

1. Drink heavily.
2. Cast.
3. Make up stuff.
4. Shoot the stuff I made up.
5. Reshoot because the camera didn't record for some reason.
6. Drink more.
7. Write script.
8. Shoot more stuff to fill in plot holes.
9. Raise funds.
10. Spend funds to replenish spent alcohol.
11. Get bored and abandon project.

Story Idea
Write Script and as I do so, consider locations.
Actors
Rewrite
Finalize Locations
Equp. and Props
Rehearsals etc.
Schedule
Shoot
Edit
End.

• generate great idea
• write vomit draft which is actually awesome bottled lightning
• make it mediocre by trying to please nit picky IT members
• start hiding money from my wife, $10 here, $50 there.. cash in a few stocks..
• discover that new piece of equipment that I have to have for the project
• salivate and convince my self I need it and blow budget on said gear
• create pre production buzz on Facebook and IT by talking about my new project at every turn!
• hide more money, make sneaky withdrawals from various college funds..
• raise ALMOST enough to pay Hair and MUA, Sound guy and talent
• post casting request on CL.
• hold casting call
• burrow expensive car
• plan super cool night shoot
• vomit
• flip flop on casting decisions
• abuse friendships and acquaintances for locations
• put off shot list until night before shooting
• vomit
• scramble for cheap granola bars and bottled water
• find some gas money
• on the way to the shoot beg friends to help on set
• destroy at least two friendships by forgetting to communicate last minute changes
• blow night shoot because I don't know how to do it
• scratch expense car by forgetting to move a light stand during take
• rewrite script to deal with failure to get night shoot right
• find new location for day shoot
• forget to tell friend just how much we will need to use the bathroom at the new location
• another friendship lost
• vomit

and don't get me started on post production!

I'm having deja vu, wheat...

That was the overly necrotic Woody Allen version of what really happened, as well as a mix of different productions experiences, but yeah, deja vu...im still in post.. time to vomit!