Production Roles- Miss Miller

During our filming and editing process for our opening scene, many things need to be done to achieve an effective thriller sequence in which we are trying to achieve. Therefore, within our group we have allocated specific roles to people in order to get everything done and completed. People need to be allocated roles when creating a film in order to make the process organised a quick. The possible roles within creating a film is the director, producer, the actors, directors of photography (cameraman), sound technician, screenplay writer, MES co-ordinators and the editors. 

Director- this is

a person who is in charge of an activity, department, or organization.

Producer- a person responsible for the financial and managerial aspects of the making of a film.

Actor- a person whose profession is acting on the stage, in films, or on television.

Directors of photography (cameraman)- A cinematographer is the chief over the camera and lighting crews working on a film, and responsible for achieving artistic and technical decisions related to the image.

Sound techinician-  they are in charge of starting the music for each performance and adding music to the scene when nessecary.

Screenplay writer- A screenwriter or scriptwriter or scenarist is a writer who practices the craft of screenwriting, writing screenplays on which mass media such as films. They are in charge of writing the dialogue for the film.

Mise-en-scene coordinators- This person is in charge of planning where certain things go within a scene that is typical of the genre.

Editors-  the editors are  respsonsible to  select scenes to be shown and putting them together to create a film.

For our opening sequence we have allocated specific roles for each member in our group. This ensures that we all have an individual task and will help us to film and organise the porcess a lot faster than making one person do all tasks. We have also done this as we believe it wouldnt be fair to allocate all the roles to one person and let them do all of thw work. As we have done this, our project is fair. Also, we made up some names in order to make it look professional and so the same names were not repeated over and over.

I am the producer of our thriller, me and my grouped allocated this role to me as I am thought to be a god mathsmatician and i can therefore budget our clip and keep us in order financially. My group decided upon giving me this role as they believe I am very organised. I can also take instructions efficiently and get tasks done, when they need to be done.

The second role in which we allocated was the director. We gave this role to Heather Everingham. Our group all believed that she was the most experienced in managing a team and groups of people. She gives good instructions and gives good advice to people which is why we allocated Heather to be the director.

Freddie Conway is one of our main actors. We have chosen him for this role as he is an extremely good actor and is very dramatic and realistic when he performs. He takes drama as an A level in which is why we believe he would be perfect for this role. Freddie is also very enthusiastic when he is acting and listens to the instructions Heather and myself give him. Olivia Rugely is another one of our actors. She also takes A level drama and takes acting very seriously. She is very hard working and will get the work done when needed to.

Again, we gave Heather Everingham the role of the director of photography (cameraman). We have chosen her to do this role as she is very creative when it comes to filming and we believe that she will chose great camera angles in which we can use to our advantage to create a thrilling effect. Heather knows how to work with the cameras very well and is confident when moving around with the camera which is why we have chosen her. 

We have decided that we will all be the sound techinicians. When the editing stage approaches and we have to include our sound, our group will sit down together and discuss the sound that we want to be included in order to create an eerie feel and build the tension. As a group we want to be completely happy with everything that goes into our final clip which is why we have decided to talk about the sound together instead of letting an individual person do it. 

As there is very minimal dialogue in our opening sequence, there was no screenplay writer. The only dialogue in which you can hear from the characters is screaming and calls for help. All of our group decided to include this as it creates a fearful sense to the clip and it builds our relationship with the characters. 

The Mise-En-Scene coordinators role is split between Heather and myself. We believe that we can both bring our creativeness to the role and create a clip full of conventional mise-en-scene to the thriller genre. When filming, we will assist eachother in where to place certain objects, how we want the lighting, what costumes in which the character should be wearing and so on. 

The final role that we allocated was the editor. We gave this role to Freddie Conway. We gave Freddie this role as we believe his best suited to do this. He edited our pleminary task which was good, so, we allocated him to do the editing as he is most confident using the software in which is used. 

Filming Schedule- Miss Georgiou

When our group is planning to film for our opening scene, we created a film schedule. A filming schedule is extremely useful to the group when planning an opening scene as it puts everything into one focus so that we know what has to be done and when we will be getting it done by.  This makes the filming process a lot easier for the group as it will make sure everything will run smoothly and avoid any disruptions or potential arguments. 

By doing the film schedule we are able to recognise the significance of the deadlines of filming and how much we need to do in certain amount of time. However, as we have created a schedule, it will make the group feel less stressed and we will be able to co-operate better with each other in order to make the film more productive and efficient. 

Our filming schedule is what we are going to stick by so then it will enable us time time to edit once the filming has been completed. Editing will make the scene more engaging for the audience when they watch it. 

This schedule has extremely helped us to plan when to film. We were able to to see when we was all free, planning dates and times that are acceptable and reasonable for us all. Because of this, we were able to co-operate with each other successfully, showing good teamwork skills.

When it came to filming, we made a few changes to our plan and didn't stick to the timing of the schedule as well as we could of done. We wanted to be precise with our filming and achieve a film in which we were all happy with.We filmed each frame several times so when it came to the editing stage, we were able to pick the best one. Another thing in which changed in our schedule was our actor. Unfortunately, on the days we could all film together our actress Olivia Rugely wasn't able to make it. Therefore, we had to cut her from the opening sequence.