Wednesday, 9 December 2015

Production Roles - Miss Miller

Within the film industry and creating a film, the best way to manage a production team is by allocating specific roles to each person as it will make the whole process more organised. By doing this way if everyone is doing their own job it will make everything less stressful this means that each person can specialise in the area they are focused on.

These roles include:
- Producers
- Directors
- Actors
-Director of photography
- Music producers
- Screen play writers
- Mise en scene coordinators
- Editors

Our group was different from the rest of the others, as there was only two of us we did our best to allocate the different rolls between us. The director was the main role that we allocated, the director is given the job of planning out and arranging times for filming. This was easily done as there was only two of us. We both made sure we had planned in advance where we were meeting and at what given time so this role was shared between the both of us. The directors job is also change any ideas if they do not look as good as they were planned to be in order to achieve the best possible role.

The producers role is to make sure the characters are playing their roles properly and making sure that the filming is going to scheduled. This role was once again shared between the both of us as we both made impute to the filming process by changing scenes and frames of the original idea. In our opening credits we are going to use made up names to make the credits more interesting rather than repeating the same two names.

The roles of characters had to adapted as there is now only two of us in the group. The characters are now played my only Nojus and I. The killer will be played by Nojus and I will still play the victim. The role of the actors is to follow what the story board plans. Making sure they are ready for the next frame they are in. These are the people that the audience should be able to relate to. The actors role is to follow what the director says and to preform as if they were really in that position in order to make their performance believable.

I was given the job of finding the music and sound effects that need to be added in. As the editing was all done on Nojus computer I found the sounds for him and he added them in. I am responsible for making sure the sound is in every scene that it needs to be in. I was able to find music that created suspense but also allowed Nojus to give his own opinion and ideas on the sounds I had used.

As there is now only two of us in our group we had to change the narrative of our piece on short notice. This accounted for me and Nojus becoming screen play writers. We both shared the responsibility of writing the new story for our thriller. We had to change each of the frames of our story boards and then filmed around that. This job involves making sure that the story is followed throughout filming and is made easier as this is also the directors job.

The next role I took on was the mise - en - scene co-ordinator, this means I had to plan what props needed to be brought in for the filming that day. For mine and Nojus' sequence we needed a knife that had to be brought into school. This also includes the costume and make-up we needed. My role was to also make sure Nojus and I were in the right positioned when we were being filmed to make sure the shot looks exactly how it did in the storyboard.

Nojus individual role was editing. He chose this as it is the element he is most comfortable with doing however when Nojus is not in school I use the lessons to input my own editing skills. The role of he editor is to input all of the raw footage onto final cut pro in order to fasten up and add effects to any given frames. The editors role is one of the most important as they are in charge of the final touches before showing it to the audience. As editing is one of the most important roles this was the only individual role given to Nojus. I feel by doing this the roles were allocated fairly to make sure he was not doing to many difficult tasks at once.

Despite having to change groups which meant changing our entire narrative, me and Nojus were able to take on all the roles involved when making our final sequence. By taking on these responsibilities me and Nojus have worked more as a team which will reflect in our final product.


1 comment:

  1. You have provided a sound explanation of the roles involved in production, and a proficient analysis of each group member's contribution.

    You need to:
    1) In your paragraph for each person, state why they were allocated each role and analyse what they did well/could have done differently within their roles and how this enabled filming/editing
    2) Conclusion should give a general analysis of filming and whether things went well, and how you might have done things differently with hindsight - allocated roles to different people and why

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