Production Roles - Miss Miller

In the process of creating a film production, there are allocated roles with responsibilities in order to make sure the film being worked on is successful. Having a variety of roles for different people allows a less stressful time for each individual, and is alternatively quicker than having the same person for every single role. Also, having different roles for different people allows the quality of the work to be at a high standard too because there is divided attention to every detail within the prd.

Producer -Prepare and then supervise the making of a film before presenting the product to a financing entity or a film distributor. They might be employed by a film studio or be independent, yet either way they helm the creative people as well as the accounting personnel.

Directors- The Director is the driving creative force in a film's production, and acts as the crucial link between the production, technical and creative teams.  Directors are responsible for creatively translating the film's written script into actual images and sounds on the screen

Actors- Persons who perform in a film, programme or on stage.

Director of photography- the person who is responsible for all operations concerning camera work and lighting during the production of a film. 

Sound Technicians-alter and balance the levels of different sounds that are recorded

Screenplay Writer-A screenwriter or scriptwriter or scenarist is a writer who practises the craft of screenwriting, writing screenplays on which mass media such as films, television programs, comics or video games are based.

Editors-the activity of selecting the scenes to be shown and putting them together to create a film

When my group and I started to produce our opening credits we used a wide range of variety of names that we made up so that the same three names do no keep repeating themselves. However, despite the use of all the different names, we have all taken the responsibilities of each role and shared them equally so that it also doesn't look unproffesional or low budget.

I have been allocated the role of Mise-en-scene coordinator. I put myself forward for this role because I'm a creative person and therefore I believed that I would achieve the best for the group in this section of production. My group trusted me to look after things and keep the group organized with bringing different props and taking control of hair and make up. Hair and make up is crucial in our thriller as without the ideal appearance, the genre of our opening sequence may be unclear. This way I was able to dress our characters according to the atmosphere that my group and I have created and being able to look at make up for the characters meant that it would allow our targeted audience to warm towards our victims which is important because it helps our opening sequence to be successful because the audience would have created a relationship with the characters. I wasn't  allocated the role of director, editor or producer because my leadership skills are strong, but not as strong as the boys so we felt that therefore the boys would produce the better role.

We decided to allocate the role of director to Vasil because my group and I felt that he was the strongest speaker and was able to give clear direction to each role, Vasil is also very good at group work and conjuring creative and original idea's, so therefore my group and I felt that it would be Vasil's best suited role during this production. We also assigned the role of producer with Vasil as we felt he worked well and under pressure and produces affective results, however there was lack of orginisation and if the opportunity presented itself to re-do things in our production, Vasil would not have been handed such difficult tasks and my group and I feel partly responsible for this for perhaps our lack of communication with Vasil, but if there had of been an issue, he should have come forward and spoken to the group and I about this so we could resolve the issue quickly and effectively. Despite the clear lack of orginisation, Vasil achieved well for our group and so I am happy that our group allocated these roles to him.

Lastly, my group and I believed George would suit the role of producer, editor and sound technician. George nominated himself for these roles and we felt it would be best he done these roles due to his knowledge and background in these areas and would therefore produce the best results from this. George supplied the production with some excellent skills that he has learned and therefore applied to our production. I believe these roles were best suited particularly to George because he showed a lot of enthusiasm in doing these and making our opening sequence to the best that it could be, and actually, our production is very successful due to his work therefore Vasil and I were more than happy with allocating these roles to George.

I believe as a group, we worked together and bounced off each others idea's to create a successful opening sequence. As a group we were able to apply different skills that we have all learned and was able to make improvements to each others work with constructive criticism and therefore ended up with a successful end result. However, despite how our group functioned and worked well together, there were a few hiccups and if done again I would suggest more people in the production roles as it was stressful to share the roles equally without certain members being under more stress than the others. Also, I believe we would re arrange the role for Vasil as we know it was difficult for him to supply the group with his usual standard work and therefore his role with George fell more onto George as he then had double the work to do, so this was unfair. I'd also liked to have been allocated more roles in our production as despite my role of MES coordinator being a big role, I felt that my presence was slightly dismissed and so if done again, I would have requested more roles to feel like I had contributed more to the group as my lack of roles meant that I wasn't able to include as much work as the others.  But I am happy with our group and it was pleasant to work with them, and I am happy with our end result.

Director; Vasil Nikolov
Mise-en-scene coordinator; Danniella Cross
Producers; George Miller, Vasil Nikolov

Websites that have helped me in my research for this post:
http://www.creativeskillset.org/film/jobs/direction/article_3880_1.asp
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Film_producer
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/director+of+photography
http://www.collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/english/sound-engineer
http://www.thefreedictionary.com/film+editing