PRODUCTION ROLES - Miss Miller

PRODUCTION ROLES

• Each person must have a role allocated to them
• To explain why they've been given this specific role
• Evaluation of how they did in this role (what went well, could have gone better) and why

People need to be allocated specific roles when creating a film as it enables every member of the production to contribute especially towards one area, making every member of the production team to have a significant role in production. The main roles that are necessary for creating a film consists of;

Producers - Hannah, Ollie, Ella
Directors - Hannah
Actors - Ollie & Ella
Director of photography - Hannah
Music Producers - Ollie
Screen play writer - Ella
MES Co-ordinator - Hannah, Ella, Ollie
Editors - Ella

Deciding on production roles before we start filming our opening sequence will help us stay on track and help prevent any mistakes when filming. For each eight roles we have at least one person, our first role is producer. A Producer a person responsible for the financial and managerial aspects of the making of a film or broadcast or for staging a play. A producer helps to prepare the whole film, including the narrative. When planning we all decided and contributed on our narrative, so we was all happy with the final ending decision. We decided that every person in our group ( me, hannah, ollie) will all be a producer, this is because we all put input into what we are going to include in our opening sequence and how it will work well. All of our input has worked better than just one person being a producer this is because we worked together well and came up with better ideas on how and what to film, we had weekly discussions had produced our opening scene together as a team. A Producer is the most important job in film making and we came to the decision that we are all important in our group. We have all planned our own ideas for editing, music and mise-en-scene and this all comes under being a good producer. If we selected one person from our group to be the producer then this may has caused friction between the group as the decisions haven't been made together and discussed properly, i found that in my own opinion because neither me or my group members had been a producer in any production before, working as a team worked best as we learnt of each other and took it in turns to take the lead, this way it was fair.

The second role of producing a film is a director. A film director is a person who directs the making of a film. Directing is a large part in film making and without the director nothing would really take place. As a group we decided to make Hannah the director. We chose to do this as she took media at GCSE and was a director here. She has learnt all the techniques and is good at taking charge of situations. Her role as a director means that is the boss of the film and has to direct everyone in the right direction. Her skills will help us explore new ways into creating a better thriller films and add different touches to any other normal thriller. As a director Hannah will be in charge of nearly everything in the scene, e.g. deciding on whether the shot taken looks right and needs to be taken again, this will help us with the best possible outcome and engage with the audience well. After our first day of filming I found that Hannah was a good director and gave clear specific instructions on what do to. I found that this helped as we didn't miss any of the scenes out and each scene we filmed was filmed well with good structure. Hannah made sure the background scene usable and worked well with the atmosphere we wanted to create. In my opinion I found that Hannah didn't do anything wrong, the planning before hand helped us to move on faster and not forget about anything that needed to be included, although after a group discussion we found that Hannah needed to come to conclusions about finalising scenes before, and not make new decisions In the middle of filming, we found that this wasn't a large issue but did cause a little concern at the start of our filming.

The actors in our opening sequence was myself (Ella) and Ollie.
An actor is a person whose profession is acting on the stage, in films, or on television. We as a group have chosen to use two actors for our filming. Our first actor is ollie, who is playing two parts in our opening sequence, he is going to be the antagonist aswell as a victim. His role as a antagonist will mean he will have a different personality than to the victim. His role as a antagonist means his personality will be very masculine and tough. As an actor ollie will have to use his acting skills to play both the parts very well and not show to the audience that it is the same actor playing two parts as this is important and one thing that me and my group are worried about. We felt that ollie has a strong charachter and would be good as an actor, he uses alot of expression in his tone. The other actor we have discussed as a group to use is myself (ella). We as a group decided to use myself as our second actor as i express qualities that would be good for a young vunrable female victim. Our actors both show good qualites that will show strong emotion to the audience and intrege them into what is being shown.

The third production role is director of photography. This simply means the person filming the whole scene/production. Hannah has taken on the role of director of photogrpahy as this is because she took media at GCSE and has learnt about the camera skills before, so could suggest to the other members of my group what camera angle/technique may work well in a particular scene and why. The director of photography can look through the camera and decide what looks good and what dosent when filming a scene, similar roles to a director. I think in my own opinion that this is a very important role as without this role the opening sequence wouldnt be filmed as well as not being filmed to a high enough standard as what hannah produced. When filming we found that hannah done a very good job of filming, she used all camera angles which we discussed that we was going to use and the quality of filming was excellent. Although we didnt try using two people as our director of photography so we couldnt compare the quality of filming, we didnt find this a problem but next time we feel we should decide afterwards.

The fourth production role is music producers. This role allows the allocated person to pick certain sound effects and music for scenes in our thriller. For this role we as a group decided that Ollie would be the music producer. Before filming as a group we researched conventional sounds that aure used in thrillers, these sounds build up tension and suspense and the typical convention such as a heartbeat. It was very hard to pick sounds before filming as we didnt know how our filming was going to change and could excatly decided so we waited until afterwards. After fully filming our opening sequience ollie took on the role of looking at specific scenes and deciding what sound effects should go where and why. Ollie decided that a run through of the music would play throughout aswell as other sound effects ontop. For example; when the antagonist is on screen and seen to be surrounding the victim, a heartbeat will be played to represent the victim and how scared he is, this will create a relationship with the audience, creating tension and making them feel vunrable of him. Music makes alot of difference in thrillers as it can sometimes build up more tension than what is actually shown on the screen, this is why it was important for ollie to get things right. Overall i feel in my own opinion that ollie has done well, he has picked conventinal sounds that are well known to the thriller audience and are well known to making the audience feel scared and nervous. Although, i feel he could have researched further and maybe have used sounds that appear out of the blue and arent well-known, creating our thriller opening sequence to be different to anyone elses.

The fifth production role is screen play writer. This the credits shown on the screen. Obviously because we are only creating an opening sequence the credits will be shown the whole way through at the beginning and not the end, just to show to the audience who is in this opening sequence and what roles people have taken on. I (ella) have been selected to be the screen play writer. We decided this as a group as