Production Roles- Miss Miller

Particular roles are allocated when creating a film or sequence as they enable people to focus on specific areas of the production. Each role is significant as it contributes towards producing a sucessful production and the person filling each particular role has a very important job to ensure the production comes across as professional. The necessary roles needed to create a production include:

• Production company
• Producers
• Directors
• Actors
• Music producers
• Directors of photography
• Screenplay writers
• Editors

When allocating these roles to our group members, we discussed the qualities and skills that would need to be applied to ensure each role is completed well so it is sucessful. I was allocated the role as an actor; the main character (female victim) because I haven chosen to take A-level drama, as I sustained a grade B at GCSE. This gives me an advantage over the other members in my group as neither Mikaeel or Tyler were as interested in having a large or main role in the production as they do not study drama as a subject. I also contributed towards the role of music producers, along side Mikaeel as we both spent time in lessons reseaching potential sounds and music that fit in with our narrative and could be used within our production. Examples of SFX that we found are heavy breathing and a heartbeat as they are conventional to a thriller as they create suspense and surprise.

We allocated Tyler as the editor, as he had used the editing softwear before with our preliminary task and knew how to cut, import, and put filters on our sequence. We were confident that Tyler would be able to finalise our sequence and make it flow as is played so it looked professional.

We decided that the director of photography will be Mikaeel as he has the least amount of time on screen, allowing him to be free to film whilst Tyler and I are in role. Mikaeel had to tell us where we needed to stand within the frame and instructed us on what we were doing right and what else we needed to do, as he could see what was happening from the audience's perspective. This also meant that Mikaeel took on the role of director as he kept track of what had been filmed and what we needed to do to complete all of the shots for our opening sequence.