Production Roles - Miss Miller

Having people allocated to specific roles makes the filming process simpler and quicker. Each member gets given an role to focus on so that it is evenly spread out making the work less stressful. The one role to one person rule makes the planning and filming easier this is because they only have one subject to work on and don't have to worry about other parts of the film, they will not be as rushed and the whole filming work will more organised. In our group we were given these roles; Producers, director, actors, music producer, screen play writer, MES co-ordinator, editors and directors of photography.

We decided on these roles by discussing who had more experience and knowledge of which one. As a group we went round saying who would be better at which role and from their we shared out the work evenly so that each group member had the same amount of work and the roles that they would be best at. We decided on these; 

• Producers - Jess, Charlie and Ryan - This job was given to all three members of our group. We decided this because the film was a group effort, everyone has added something to the work and we all discussed everything making fair decision on what everyone wanted. This role meant we all had to over look to project and make sure it ran smoothly.
• Director - Charlie - We chose Charlie to be the director because he has a past with making films he has done it before meaning he know more about what looks bet in shot. The job in this role is to watch the actors and shot when filming and direct how they need to look and how the actors need to he portrayed
• Actors - Harry Osborne, Ella Sawtell, Morgan Boughey and Molly Van-Wijngaarden 
• Music producer - Ryan - Our music producer is Ryan, he was picked to do this job because he has an interest in music so everyone thought he would be best at picking the sound track that would suit our opening sequence. Ryan was in control of finding suitable soundtracks to emphasise the film and worked well.
• Screenplay writer - Jess - I am the screenplay writer because the narrative was based on my individual narrative. This means that I know what the film needs to look like and how it needs to be given to the audience, allowing to be easier for me than other group members to write the screen play.
• MES co-ordinates - Jess - I am also the MES co-ordinator because the group thought I would know the most effective element to emphasise on our film. Also I have previous experience with make-up, iconography and lighting because I have had to plan them for a school dance show meaning I know what looks good to the audience.
• Editors - Charlie and Jess - Charlie and I are the editors. We decided on this as Charlie has had experience of editing before from his previous course in GCSE when he had to make his own film. I have also been chosen to help Charlie with the because I have had a couple years experience on the equipment from school and home. Our role here was to add all the shots together adding credits, soundtracks and editing techniques so that the opening sequence became on hole thing.
• Director of photography - Ryan and Charlie - The group chose on Ryan and Charlie to be the cameramen this is because both of them have had experience with the equipment before also due to their previous media course in GCSE. They could run the shot smoother and quicker as they know how everything works. Director of photography is basically the camera men meaning they were in charge of positioning cameras and  filming the shots.

We each had to be given more than one job because our group is small but as it is not a full film, just and opening sequence it wasn't to difficult and we could still keep organised. Giving each role to a different person made the filming process a lot quicker and easier. most roles were allocated to a specific person who would be best at it due to experiences and their knowledge. This meant the work got done quicker with less mistakes as most people knew what they were doing within their roles. The different roles made the filming easier because the jobs were evenly spread out decreasing stress and the duration.
Everyone worked quite well with their roles, there were rarely any problems and it ran smoothly, we benefitted from having allocated roles because it spread the work across a load of people allowing the it to get done quickly. One of the issues we faced was with the music producer this was because of the technology, Ryan found some of the soundtracks we wanted but due to copy they was difficult to get into our sequence this meant we had to find other sound which was possibly less effective. If we could some parts within our opening sequence we would make the music producer in to a two man job so that it was done quicker matching with the other roles.