Production Roles - Miss Miller

People need to allocated specific roles when creating a film because they have to be apart of the process of making them film, and different people will have different attributes to them, making them more suitable for the job. 

JOB ROLES INCLUDE:

Producers: They have to create the scenes and conditions for the movie.  They initiate, co-ordinate supervise and control matters.  producers are involved throughout all phases of the film-making process to the development to the completion of the film.

Directors: The person who involved in the making of the film and tells the people involved what to do in the film and they are responsible for translating the script into actual images and sound.

Actors: Actors are people who play as the characters in the movie, to help bring the film to life.

Director of Photography:  The cameraman has to hold the camera taking into consideration the types of shots which they have to do. 

Music Producers: The music producers pick the music which will be included in the film and sometimes produce the music if something different is needed.

Screenplay Writer:  The screenplay writer, writes the script of the film, thinking about what each character is going to say and what they may doing while they are saying it.  It provides the characters to learn their lines.

MES Co-ordinators: The people who are in charge of the mise-en-scene considering the setting, iconography, colour, positioning and body language of characters.

Editors: Editors are the people who edit the footage which the camerman gets, cutting out and adding the music.  They are responsible for putting the final version of the film together.

We decided who will be doing what considering what the strengths are of each group member.  The director of photography is Ben as he is confident with handling the camera.  We decided to choose Ben to be our cameraman, and not someone else as we know he confident with handling the camera, compared to somebody who wouldn't know what they were doing.  Within this role, he has to manage the camera and make sure the shots are steady and are at the right angle.  This will make filming and editing easier as we will not have to worry about the stability and editing out too much of the camera work.This role had to be changed to myself, as I am confident with controlling and operating my camera, which will make it easier as I won't have to show them what to do when handling my camera. This has made production easier, as no time was wasted, as I didn't have to explain how to the camera properly.   I believe the director of photography did well as the shots created are of good quality and are how we expected them to be as we originally planned.

As a group we decided to have two actors, a victim - Ellie Holt and a killer - Louie Hart.  We decided to pick Ellie as our victim as she is blond female and in thrillers blond females are considered to be vulnerable for the audience and being a blond female makes it conventional to the thriller genre.  We picked Louie Hart as our killer as he is a tall male, therefore being conventional to the thriller genre as he would be considered to be the strongest comparing to the victim is considered to be weak.  

Due to the actors not turning up we had to turn to other people who would act for us but it came to the conclusion that two of our group members would have to take part in the opening sequence so we didn't get behind.  Wai-lum Pang took the part of the victim, being brunette, we though of a reason why she would be brunette as it is mostly more common for blondes.  However, we came to the decision that realistically a victim could have any hair colour, even though blondes may be portrayed as more vulnerable in thriller films.  I believe she did her part well she had good body language of the victim.

We decided Wai-lum was going to be the editor of our opening sequence as she edited our preliminary task, and has more of an idea of how to use final cut pro x, as this makes her know have more of an idea of what to do.   As a group, we will also help with the editing making sure that everything is how we want it.  As part of the role, she will be using final cut pro to edit our opening thriller sequence.  This will make editing easier, as it probably won't take as long as someone who doesn't really know anything about using the editing software.  I believe she did well doing this job as she paid close attention to certain parts of clips which we may have not needed and making sure the sound was in sync with everything else.

Ben will also be a producer, as he has organised most of the times we will be filming and when.  During the role he has arranged times, when everyone will be free and what time we will meet up at our location.  He will also have to take control of certain issues which like, actors which may have not turned up and think of a compromise.  He also had to assure that everyone is doing their job properly.  This makes the group focused.  I think Ben did well on being producer because he made sure that the group met up and the right place and time.  He also made sure that we got the necessary shots needed for our opening sequence.

The screenplay writers is the whole group consisting of Beau Abery, Benjamin Yarwood, Wai-lum Pang and I, as we thought of the idea together, so we plan on what happens in each frame and agree with what will be best for our opening thriller sequence.  This made the making of the planning of this easier, as it was group effort.

MES co-ordinator is Beau Abery, we decided this as he decided on the location, taking into consideration what would look best considering the setting and the background.  Also trying to  to get us a car, as we can't drive and getting some who can drive in position of our victim.  This role was done well, as the location was set.  However, communication lacked and had trouble finding the location, meaning we ended up going home and did not have each others numbers at the time.

Sound producer will be Wai-lum Pang, as she knows things about music and believe she will be able to pick the right music for our thriller.  Everyone else in the group, will also be included in picking the specific sounds as we will agree or disagree if the sound if right for our thriller opening sequence.  We did this well as we worked well as a group, knowing what sounds were good for our thriller and what was considered to be bad.  This made production easier as we all agreed and picked the right music.

Overall, we have allocated people different roles according to what they would be best at.  We considered these roles for the group members, taking into consideration strengths of everyone and making it their own role.  We think allocating these roles will make the production and the sequence better because we have considered what everyone can do best and giving them the right job.  

We did not film what we wanted as problems arose with the characters not being unavailable and having to change the characters. So time was an issue, so we would have to plan when the actors would be available at the same time.  We could have used our time more wisely, as when we got around to filming on the day, we couldn't find the location. This resulted us having to give in the camera and tripod back with no footage.  We had to find a compromise camera and tripod. I was willing to use my Canon 600d and tripod as it is a good quality camera and we didn't necessarily worry about having to have the filming done within a week.