Production Roles - Miss Miller

Production Roles

Production roles are essential when filming as they organise each person's duty within the group. Which is more convenient so everyone knows specifically what their doing and where they need to be. People need to be allocated in specific roles to maintain coordination within the company, also each person can be specifically assigned to something. The main significant roles within the film industry are:

Producers control every aspect of the film's production and are mainly in charge of organising everything.

Directors are responsible for the entire set, it is a managing role in which they supervise what goes on within the film. 

Actors have an important role within the film and are a main part of the narrative. 

Director of photography are mainly responsible for the cinematography element of the film process and where the camera shots take place.

Mise en scene coordinator are obliged to manage what props go into the scene including hair and makeup.

Sound technicion's find the suitable music when editing the film.

Editor's are essential as they piece the whole film together by using a software to edit the movie and add different editing effects e.g jump cuts

Screenplay writer produce the scripts for the actors to read. They take ideas for the narrative and put it into speech.

Leandra- Actress/sound technician/screenplay writer/producer

Leandra is playing the main character Chelsea. Our roles are divided upon us to make our team more organised, however every individual person gets to try out different roles to see what is best suited to them. Screenplay writer is assigned to everyone as we all brought in our ideas in order to create a script from the narrative. Leandra has numerous skills in which she applies to this specific role in the film. Some of these skills consist of organisation,co ordination and team work. These abilities enable her to be a strong candidate for acting. Her co ordination skills allow her to work well with the director which is good for the audience as she can do exactly what the director asks her to do. 

Nataliah-Editor/mise en scene coordinator/screenplay writer/producer

I was assigned the role of the editor because she has the ability to know how to make the scene a lot better and more tense. This will help us to create a successful opening sequence because i have the responsibility of creativity which is what she owns, a creative spirit which will enable us to have a successful opening sequence. I am also the mise-en-scene coordinator because she has the ability to set a scene, use certain iconography, lighting, colour, hair, make up and also positioning the characters in a certain way to make the characters become represented in certain ways. This will be useful as we intend to make the villain seem scary and intimidating while we make the victim seem vulnerable and small. This will show the audience which character is what and how their actions take part in the opening sequence. Ialso played a part as a screenplay writer as she helped my by using her own individual ideas to incorporate her own ideas into the script to make the opening sequence a lot more believable and interesting to grab the audiences attention.


James- Director of photography/director/producer/screenplay writer

James was assigned the role of director because he has the ability and is able to order people around because he is the director and has numerous amount of abilities to make the film a lot better and believable. James also has the responsibility as director of photography because he is the only one with the ability to work a camera and be able to use it to create character representation by using different camera angles in the scene and to know how to introduce a character or scene. We also gave the role of screenplay writer to James as well because if we incorporate the three of us in our group we can create a good piece of script that will be interesting but not too complicated that it will confuse the audience.