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There’s a lot of logistics and planning! I can’t speak for how exactly it happens in Hollywood but I can tell you that there’s going to be a lot of paperwork, a lot of planning, and a lot of very specific details lined out.I will give you a personal example. I just made a short film for class. It was only a few minutes but I still have the trees as professional as possible and I want to learn more and develop my skills so I put in the most minor work I can.For this film, I had the script I wrote. Then, I wrote an AV script, a shot list, a shooting order, pulled up a shot log template for when I shoot, pulled up an equipment/props/costumes list, a location list, and if I was checking out equipment from the school, then I had to make an equipment checkout list. I also have a lot of general notes and paperwork outlining ideas I had and things to consider. When things got started, I had to make a document for all of my credits so I can keep track of where I shot, what camera are used, who was acting, who was on crew, and who I should give thanks to. While doing all this paperwork, I have to keep progress so on top of my shot list I have a copy of my shot list with strikethrough‘s through everything I’ve already done.On top of this, I’m a bit extra and did additional work for the film. I had to write an essay for the class are reflecting what I learned and what I implemented in the short film. So, I had an essay written up. Because I’m an English minor and an English nerd, I really love tropes. Specifically literary or television tropes. So, I made a trope list which find specific lines in the script and shows what literary device the represents. On top of symbolism and personification and some of the basics, I included very obscure ones. As I said I’m a huge nerd.So, I made a trope list which find specific lines in the script and shows what literary device the represents. On top of symbolism and personification and some of the basics, I included very obscure ones. As I said I’m a huge nerd.This is literally the contents of my documents folder specifically under the specific project. For each project I have a folder with documents, files, footage, photos, and everything necessary throughout the production. There is an absolutely huge amount of steps that go into making a film and the key is: ORGANIZATION.If you’re curious about adapting a script to be filmed, look more into storyboards/shot lists and research highlighting scripts.I hope this helped :) have a great day!

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This is an example of sound change.No, particularly when said in isolation, and abruptly, ends in a glottal stop - you can feel your glottis (vocal chords) closing, if you pay attention. Glottal stop is easily confusable with the standard English sounds p, t and k. When you combine this with the rounding of the lips from the o sound, you get something more p-like versus k-like. (Note the position of the lips w/ a p; in contrast, many languages had glottal stop ~ k sound changes, e.g., Hawaiian).This results in acoustic cues at the end of no that make it sound like maybe possibly there is a p at the end. Some people misperceive that as a full-on p then start purposefully adding the p and the rest is history(cal linguistics).More generally, it's likely incorrect to presume that language has an explicit drive towards being easier. Rather, there are tangible forces at play that result in it generally being easier, but not always (e.g., nope).EDIT: This reply got far more attention than I would have ever expected given what I thought was an otherwise obscure topic. And while I was on vacation, no less. So, I'd like to circle back and expand on the answer and provide a much more thoughtful reply that includes other hypotheses that we might want to consider as well as suggestions as to how me might examine the evidence more carefully. This will hopefully serve to give ideas their due lest upvotes be confused with truth.So, for starters, the reply above, which I think still has some merit can be categorized as sound change through misperception.Therefore, an obvious alternative to consider is sound change through misproduction. I think this is far less likely but one way it could work is to begin with the idea that two syllables are a more natural state for a word to be in. Evidence for this come from babies, for example, who often start speaking using bisyllabic words, e.g., mama, dada, bahbah (for bottle) and so on; and from the fact that many languages organize their words into bisyllabic units as with English stress patterns (trochees, iambs). (There is a lot more research on the subject, if anyone wants more references). From there, it may be that people are misproducing No to fit this 2-syllable template and that all occurrences of Nope actually have a strongly released p, meaning the mouth pops open and some aspirated sound is made making it almost like Nopahhhh. Why the p instead of some other sounds? The answer would be similar to the above - the rounding of the o leads to a labial (lip) consonant.A similar hypothesis would be something along the lines that human speech is ultimately based on the opening and closing motions of our jaw (see works of MacNeilage and Davis). No, when it occurs in isolation, is the end of a phrase; phrase endings may be generally associated with a mouth-closing motion, hence a p. These don't strike me as very satisfactory explanations: Why not b? Why not nopa? Where's the evidence for phrase-final effects of this sort? Regardless, misproduction should be considered.Another alternative is sound symbolism, which is what people are alluding to when they talk about the feeling of finality associated with the p. Consider the following English words: clasp, clap, slap, crop, blip, stop, stomp, lop. They all end in p and they all have a sort of abrupt finality associated with their meaning. A blip both begins and ends abruptly; or juxtapose clap with something like whoosh. It's not that p is explicitly associated with that meaning in English (e.g., cap), but rather it's suggestive. It's difficult to know what to do with these Phonesthemes in terms of understanding human grammar, but it's pretty clear it affects people psychologically in terms of processing language.In some cases, there is a definite sound-symbolic component of the sound-meaning pairing; for example, here, p is articulated abruptly, or consider slip, slither, slide and the acoustics of sl, which sounds sort of slithery. Other times, it can be a more arbitrary pairing, e.g., glitter, glimmer, glint, glow (light has nothing to do with the gl sound).So, the final-p phonaestheme in English could have led to nope and yep sound-change to indicate finality. The challenging part here is that it's easy to identify phonaesthemes in a language by looking at a dictionary, but it's hard to pinpoint how they arise and how they impact sound change.***So, a few hypotheses here. How might be distinguish between these options?Well, first I'd be remiss if I didn't reference the Language Log " Yep and nope post, which notes that nope and yep pretty much always occur alone in a phrase. Well, nope. Or, Yep, we can! don't seem to occur very often. I believe this advocates in favor of an explanation that relates to the phonetics of word-final phrasing.Another thing we can do is look at when nope and yup started appearing in the English language. If nope came far earlier, then it would suggest the acoustics of no is important. Recall that I suggested that yup came about as analogy with nope. There is no phonetic way to get p from yes. So, if they came about in tandem, it would suggest sound symbolism. If yup came first, it's back to the drawing board. What sayeth the OED? Nope first attested in 1888. Yup is 1906 - a decent gap. But wait, what have we here? Yep, attested 1891. Attestation data that is so close is toughto interpret, particularly when it's colloquialisms, but interesting nevertheless.We can look at the production question by looked at whether there is, indeed any sign of lip-closing for words at the end of a phrase. Seems unlikely to me...Finally, we can look at the acoustics of no in isolation, particularly the existence of the glottal stop. Some commenters here object to the idea, though the comments on the language log post confirmed a glotalized p. Also, the fact that nope can only be used in isolation syntactically distinguishes it from no at the beginning of a sentence, which would not have a glottal stop. Ultimately, it's a question we can answer by measurement - look at as many utterances containing only no as possible and look at the acoustics and see if they suggest any sort of glottal stop, or better yet, try to get an image of the glottis in action.