Production Roles - Miss Miller

Production Roles

Introduction 

When making or creating an opening sequence there are a lot of different tasks and jobs that need to be handled most of these jobs contain a lot of work. This means that most of these roles needs to be dealt with separately and this is why we have tried to evenly give each person in our group a good amount of work that needs to be done.

Producer (Production Name)

Our producer is GoButson. This company was created by us and the idea came form Jake Butler to merge all our last names together to presented our opening sequence in a much more personal way.

Directors

We decided that the best people to have the role as the Directors was myself and Claire as it was our individual ideas that where very similar and would work well together. This meant that we where both very ambitious to come up with a group narrative that displayed some sort of disturbed character. We knew exactly how we wanted this character to be portrayed and we needed the directors to have a lot of creative ideas to be able to successfully create this type of opening sequence. We wanted people from our group that made an effect into the work to be the directors. This meant that it required leadership skills.

Actors

Our main character Cameron, is played by Morgan Brown. We choose Morgan as we felt like he was able to appear as a good antagonist with streaks of innocence. Morgans family has always taken an interest into acting and he always enjoyed it at school and succeeded in GCSE. The same goes to the character of Grace (the mother). This character is played by Grace Wingrove. She informed as that she took GCSE drama and finished the year with an A. Finally the character of Harmoney is played by myself. We decided I would be a good fit with this character as I always always available to film and help out behind the scenes when off screen.

Director of Photography

We decided that Claire would be a very good fit into having responsibility with shooting the scenes. She has always taken an interest into photography and has had experience with shooting footage at family events such as her cousins wedding. She was also the one that filmed the preliminary task and proved to the rest of the group that she had the ability to film a numourus amount of creative and intriguing shots.

Music Producers

We decided to share the role of the music producers as we all have different tastes. Jakes prefers Rap. Claire like calming music such as acoustics. I prefer Indie and Alternative. After I showed them the song 'Tip Toe Through The Tulips'  we all agreed that this was a suitable paralell sound to be demonstrated in our thriller.

Screenplay Writer

We deicided that the person who fitted the role for screenplay writer was in fact Jake. He has a lot of skill when writing due to the fact he is taking english language at A-level. This means he must be the most suitable for the role and would be able to handle this job well enough.

MES co-coordinators 

Jake did gcse media, aswell as myself which meant we had a wider knowledge on what is suited to the thriller genre through the presentation of the MES conventions. He seemed to know the best type of lighting and probs to use that resembled the MES thriller conventions very well.

Editor

I took on the role as the editor as the group knew I had experience at GCSE. This meant that I would know how to use the editing software and get the hang of it quickly. I was able to know what type of editing was suitable to a thriller. This is because in my GCSE media coursework I had to produce an opening to a thriller similar to the task we have now.

Jake

Jake's roles where to take on the role of the MES co-ordinator and The screenplay writer. He also had a little part of playing Cameron's voice overs in our opening thriller. Jake was very good at voicing his opinions and getting across his ideas. This enabled me and Clarie to set up scenes and make sure the props and lighting was correct. If Jake was to improve on his role he should participate more in actually doing the work and take more of an interest within his roles.

Claire

Claire took on the roles of camera man and one of the directors. She was very successful at using creative shots and she used the equipment very well. She was able to always create a steady shot. As a director she was very good at coming up with locations and her input was always needed and helpful to all of the group. If she was to do something different within her role it would be to challenge the camera even more by experimenting with unusual shots.

Molly

I took on the role of editor and shared the role of director with Claire. I really enjoyed editing and tried to make the transition as smooth as possible. I liked watching back on footage with Claire and deciding whether it was suitable and what would've been done to improve it. I decided that if I was to do anything different I would take more time on the editing and concentrate on making sure it was a pristine as possible.

Conclusion

Overall filming was successful and everyone was suited to there role. Although an improvement on having certain roles would be to assign Jake with a more technical role such as director or camera man. This may have pushed him and all of use to be more organised and have everyone make an equal effort not just some of the group.