Production Roles- Miss Miller

Production Roles

People need to be allocated specific roles when creating a film in order to have a sense of organisation to the film creation. As well as adding organisation it will motivate and persuade us as group members to complete our task as we all want to excel in our allocated roles and in the creation of our film. By allocating people roles everyone obtains a task or job to focus on meaning that specific area is theirs to focus on in great detail. Although we have seperate jobs if we all do these correctly it will be a group effort as, we are all working for the same outcome which, is for our thriller to be of a high standard. There are many roles that can be involved when creating a film but, the main roles consist of, Producers, Directors, Actors, Director of photography, Music Producers, Screenplay writer, MES co-ordinators and Editors.

Roles and Definitions

The role of a producer is to prepare and supervises the film.
The role of a director is a person who directs the making of a film.
The role of the actors are to act or take the role of a character, in a performance such as movies, television and plays.
A director of photography supervises the filming of movies, TV series, or filmed ads.
The music producers job is to help you get the recording that you want to make/input within the film/scene.
A screenplay writer creates a script, written material used for a movie, a commercial or for a TV program.
A MES co-ordinator would focus on the aspects of mise-en-scene and the placing of these within the film; for example: The costume and makeup.
The role of an editor is to finalise the film with transitions to make them flow and to make sure the right parts of filming is placed in the right place.

Our Own Thriller Film

As a group we had a meeting regarding who would be allocated what roles and why. This was judged on what was best suited for the particular role and weather their skills fitted this role. We came to the conclusion that I would be the MES co-ordinator and the editor alongside Sophie would be both editor and director and Guneet would be in charge of production so would be the producer. We came to this conclusion after discussing what we felt we could be responsible for and weather we can take out the role correctly and efficently.

We decided I would be the MES co-ordinator as on previous tasks such as, the premilinary task, I excelled in this chosen area by taking control of the costume, lighting and the actors presentation. From this previous experience we decided that I should be allocated this role as it was overall sucessful. We also chose to have a joint role of me and Sophie being editors, this too was decided due to previous experience. As a team me and Sophie found that we worked exceptionally well together and that the work load is split evenly and fairly for us both making, the process of editing a lot easier but, also can be done in greater detail as there is two of us working on it. Another reason for us both doing this job is that we realise as a group how important the editing of the thriller is going to be and that by having more people on the area and alocated the role- overall it will benefit.

Also in our group meeting we concluded Sophie would be the editor (as stated and explained above) but, also the director. The role of a director is very important and is arguably one of/the most important roles in film making. Sophie is allocated this role as we feel she has a good eye for spoting whats going right and whats going wrong within the thriller making process and had taken media for gcse. Due to Sophie's skills fitting the role of director we felt, it was the best decison for Sophie to take this role on as she will execute it greatly.

Finally, we decided Guneet would be allocated the role of producer and be in charge of the overall production. This involves preparing and supervising the filming. Guneet done this well when we were praticing filming and we decided he would be the best person for the job. This will involve Guneet preparing the equipment, watching the film over and seeing whats needed to take place and overall supervision of the whole film being created. This like the other roles allocated is an important role and we feel as group we have chosen the right and best suited person for the job.

By allocating people these different roles we will be able to make our sequence better and production easier as, we will have an organisation to our filiming. By having organisation within our film everyone will know excactly what they are doing and will be able to focus on their own role meaning, they will be applying their full atention and effort to it. If we could do anything differently I would allocate people within our group more roles than say having people outside the group having a vast amount of the roles. This would be because, as a group we know what we want to present and our exact aims for our thriller sequence so, I feel we would be able to excecute them better.

In conclusion; Our group have taken great detail and thought into the allocation of roles within our thriller film. We feel as afroup we have chosen the right and bets suited roles for each individual and that overall we have a really strong team/work force that, will help us in creating our thriller to the best it can be. As well as knowing what we have to do, we have researched into how we can complete our jobs well and how the job can motivate us to suceed.