Pre – Production

Pre – Production

PLANNING & DESIGN
Pre –
Production
The foundation of every Sagar World production — where ideas take shape, characters come alive on paper, and every frame is carefully envisioned long before the camera rolls.
STEP 01
Writing
Every great show begins on the page. Writing at Sagar World is a layered craft — from the first spark of an idea to the final, polished script.
01

Ideation

Forging an idea is a show in everyone's mind. Everyone's got an idea they want to make into a film/series. Thus, to pick up a right concept that is also a need of an hour is utmost priority.

02

Writer's Room

A single mind creates a path, a team creates a landscape. Studies have shown that 3 - 4 heads working on a problem are more likely to find a solution than one individual head. Sagar World develops Indian History for the screen, which is extremely vast; thus, there is a need of finding a core theme of the show/film — a singular concept around which the whole series will revolve.

03

Research & Development

The most important area of the whole writing process. This department looks into textual evidences, web information and timed cinematic pieces to gather as much information as it can. Pictures, paintings, lost texts, major and minor holy books are scrapped for the source material. Sagar World maintains a separate file for all deviations from norms — "The Lakshman Rekha."

04

Story

It's not wrong to quote that the very soul of any visual piece is its story. Taking the detailed idea and twining it with factual events to draw a series of events in a smooth way creates a good story. The team always looks for unusual ways of storytelling that are somewhere within existing perceptions but are still different and unique.

05

Characters

Characters are noted down, their journeys distinctly grouped and each major event of growth classified. What is most important in character development is assigning a Point of View. There has to be a character whose journey drives the show forward — that character's POV becomes the audience's POV.

06

Show Bible

A character tree is developed and every character's actions and decisions are noted. The moments that lead to significant events form the basic layout of the screenplay. A show bible is all about what will be shown on the screen — the visual concepts of the show, characters, their interactions and the environment.

07

Screenplay

Every major and minor event is described in detail, the whole act of character and its minutest behaviour is written, a flow is created so that one scene transitions into another. This is done by the infamous three act structure — Setup, Confrontation and Resolution. An engaging screenplay is loaded with unpredictability, continuity, true results and breathing space.

08

Dialogues

Mythological shows contain layered dialogue writing. Hindi-Sanskrit, Hindi-Urdu and other ancient languages and cultural nuances are combined to make smooth, palatable dialogues. Dialogues are true to the nuances of characters — Lord Ram would always be polite and choose wise words, whereas Lakshmana would use hard hitting and rageful words.

09

Final Script

We have action, dialogues, sourced information and strong effective characters. All that's needed is a thread — abstract, not rigid — a way of telling the whole sequence in a flowy and smooth manner. This is what makes a solid punch of writing known as the Script.

STEP 02
Character Palette
Every epic begins with a blank page. At Sagar World, writing isn’t a step in the process – it is the process. Before a camera rolls, every frame is first lived on the page.
01

Ideation

Not every idea earns its story. We ask one question of every concept: does this deserve a cinematic life? Only the ideas that answer with a resounding yes move forward. We look for cultural resonance, dramatic richness, and contemporary urgency. Concepts that merely retell are set aside; only those that reveal something new earn a room.

02

Writer's Room

One writer opens a door. A room builds the world. Our writer's rooms assemble 3–6 voices - historians, dramaturgs, screenwriters - around a single table. No idea is too radical; no tradition is ignored. This collision of perspectives is where tone is found, scale is decided, and the thematic spine of the whole project is forged. For epic source material, we identify the one core event — a union, a rebellion, a turning point — that anchors the narrative. Every surrounding episode grows outward from that root.

STEP 03
Visual Palette
Every epic begins with a blank page. At Sagar World, writing isn’t a step in the process – it is the process. Before a camera rolls, every frame is first lived on the page.
01

Ideation

Not every idea earns its story. We ask one question of every concept: does this deserve a cinematic life? Only the ideas that answer with a resounding yes move forward. We look for cultural resonance, dramatic richness, and contemporary urgency. Concepts that merely retell are set aside; only those that reveal something new earn a room.

02

Writer's Room

One writer opens a door. A room builds the world. Our writer's rooms assemble 3–6 voices - historians, dramaturgs, screenwriters - around a single table. No idea is too radical; no tradition is ignored. This collision of perspectives is where tone is found, scale is decided, and the thematic spine of the whole project is forged. For epic source material, we identify the one core event — a union, a rebellion, a turning point — that anchors the narrative. Every surrounding episode grows outward from that root.

STEP 04
Technical Progression
Every epic begins with a blank page. At Sagar World, writing isn’t a step in the process – it is the process. Before a camera rolls, every frame is first lived on the page.
01

Ideation

Not every idea earns its story. We ask one question of every concept: does this deserve a cinematic life? Only the ideas that answer with a resounding yes move forward. We look for cultural resonance, dramatic richness, and contemporary urgency. Concepts that merely retell are set aside; only those that reveal something new earn a room.

02

Writer's Room

One writer opens a door. A room builds the world. Our writer's rooms assemble 3–6 voices - historians, dramaturgs, screenwriters - around a single table. No idea is too radical; no tradition is ignored. This collision of perspectives is where tone is found, scale is decided, and the thematic spine of the whole project is forged. For epic source material, we identify the one core event — a union, a rebellion, a turning point — that anchors the narrative. Every surrounding episode grows outward from that root.

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