Editing Pre-production (section)

{{Short description|Phase of producing a film or television show}}
{{Confuse|Prefabrication}}
{{Other uses}}<!-- This article might need to be moved to [[Pre-production (performance)]] in the future, so that the disambiguation page can be moved to here -->
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'''Pre-production''' is the process of planning some of the elements involved in a [[film]], [[television show]], [[Play (theatre)|play]], [[video game]], or other [[performance]], as distinct from [[Filmmaking|production]] and [[post-production]]. Pre-production ends when the planning ends and the content starts being produced.