Planning the Production - Miss G

Planning the production.

Task one

Production role post:

Research and define the main roles of the following within a film production

Camera operator:

A camera operator or cameraman is a professional operator of a film or video camera. In film-making, the leading camera operator is usually called a cinematography, while a camera operator in a video production may be known as a television camera operator, video camera operator, or video graph-er, depending on the context and technology involved, usually operating a professional video camera.

Actors:
An actor communicates a character and/or situations to an audience through speech, body language and movement. This usually involves interpreting the work of a writer under the instruction and support of a director, although some work may require the actor to devise a character or improvise the reactions of a character to a situation.
Work varies enormously, from live stage performances of the classics and community theatre to soap operas, radio work and film parts. An actor's role may also involve education, training or therapy, as well as entertainment.

 Sound technician:
Sound technicians are required to assemble, operate and maintain the technical equipment used to record, amplify, enhance, mix or reproduce sound.
They identify the sound requirements for a given task or situation and perform the appropriate actions to produce this sound. Sound technicians of different types are required in a range of industries including film, broadcasting (radio or television), live performance (theatre, music, dance), advertising and audio recordings.

Editors:
The film editor works with the raw footage, selecting shots and combining them into sequences to create a finished motion picture. Film editing is described as an art or skill, the only art that is unique to cinema, separating filmmaking from other art forms that preceded it, although there are close parallels to the editing process in other art forms like poetry or novel writing. Film editing is often referred to as the "invisible art" because when it is well-practiced, the viewer can become so engaged that he or she is not even aware of the editor's work.

Film Directors:
^{A film director is a person who directs the actors and film crew in filming. They control dramatic aspects, while guiding the technical crew and actors.}
 
Location Manager: 
The location manager is responsible for the finding and securing locations to be used and coordinating the logistics involved for the production to successfully complete its necessary work. They are also the face of the production to the community and responsible for addressing the issues that may arise due to the production's impact on the community.

Storyboard Organiser:  
A storyboard manager organizes and manages timelines to ensure work is completed on time. They plan the shots and camera angles that are going to be filmed and provides an overview plot of the story-line.

The link for where i have found most of these definitions are from the following source:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/studentlife/careersandchoices/dreamjobs/mediaandentertainment/camera_operator.shtml

Task two:

As a group decide on which role each group will be taking and why?  

The roles each person in the group is going to play:
Camera Operator (Lauren, Dipika Ayesha)
Actor (Lauren, Dipika, Ayesha)
Editor (Lauren, Dipika, Ayesha)
Location Manager (Lauren and Ayesha)
Sound Technician (Lauren)
Storyboard Manager (Dipika)
Film Director (Ayesha)

The roles we have chosen for each person in the group to play is because we as a team discussed who we would think the suitable person for that particular job would be and who would get the best results. We have chosen for us three to be the camera operators as for most scenes we will have our individual ideas for which camera shot will be suitable for each scenes. We had applied the same rule for our preliminary task and we were all as a team happy with the results, so we will be taking forward this rule and use the same technique when we film our thriller opening. I (Ayesha) have been chosen to take on the role of being the film director as i believe and so do the group believe that i have been creating ideas about each individual  scene, the team had commented on the fact that i am well organised and am good with directing. Lauren was chosen to be the sound technician as we believe she has the most experience with the sound files, so she would be the most reliable source for sound. The storyboard manager is Dipika as she is most aware of the sspecific scenes and angles that we planned to use.