Production roles - Miss Miller

When creating a film, different people are allocated different roles, these are: producers ,directors, actors, director of photography, music producers, screenplay writer, MES coordinator and editors. These different roles are used so different parts of the film production can work smoothly and efficiently without any confusion, also because different people in the production team are specialised in different areas, they are allocated to a specific role.

In our group, to decide who should be allocated to which role, we discussed who was the best at certain roles in out of me, Joe and Cara.

 I was allocated as the director, I supervised the filming commenting on shots and angles that could improve the opening. I also had to read over the storyboard and improvise with situations such as not finding a suitable costume for the actors.

Joe was the director of photography because he was most experienced with the camera so he knew the best shots to use and to pan smoothly and many other professional shots to help our opening look the best it can be such as: tracking, zoom in and hand held camera shots. These skills that Joe has helped our opening to run smoothly with no rough, jerky shots or any bad angles. Joe was also our editor as he was most familiar with a mac and was very confident with what he was doing, although me and Cara contributed to some of the editing ideas, Joe made it happen on the mac, the video effects used by Joe were very professional and made the film look alot better. Also the transitions and soundtracks he used improved the film too.

.I was also the producer, I found the location to film, prepared the film and supervised it as we went along to change things that needed improving, I sat with Joe whilst he was editing and gave him some ideas that he could work with to improve the film in many ways.

Screen play writer was Cara, this is because her narrative runs mostly throughout our opening with bits and pieces from mine and Joe's. She done the storyboards and drew the pictures to go along with it. I, director and producer altered some of the narrative during our filming as we found some things to fit together and we carried on from there and continued from the rest of the storyboard.

The actors played a massive part in our film, they were Hannah and Cleo, Hannah's size allowed us to use her as a little girl to create enigma, Cleo looked like a typical teenage babysitter which allows the audience to relate and feel her fear and discomfort.

Music producer was Cara, she knew which scary music to play at which time to evoke scary emotions to the audience such as horror and mystery. Also the sudden jumpy noises she chose shocked and surprised the audience.

These allocated roles helped the filming, editing and production of our film run smoothly and efficiently as possible. This allowed us to film and edit really quickly yet at a good quality to create suspense, mystery and enigma towards our target audience.