Production Roles - Miss Miller

Production Roles

We thought it was important to split up production roles, so that one person didn't have to much to do. By splitting up the roles each person can take responsibility for one or two roles, therefor can focus on their roles and ensure that each role is done sufficiently.  My roles include: Producer, director and actor. Bettie is the Music producer and editor. Malu roles include Director of Photography, Screenplay writer and the Mise en scene co-ordinates.


Myself being the producer I had to decide the location, supervise the film being made, review each clip after it being filmed to make sure that the clip will work, and arrange days and times for everyone involved to meet. After conducting our questionnaire I went with the most popular typical thriller setting, which was the forest, the drawback of filming in the forest is that it gets dark quickly and there is obviously no lights, therefor minimise our time to film, but the forest is a eery and scary location which is key for our thriller genre. The hardest part of being a producer is arranging for everyone to meet. We have planned to have six actors involved in our film and with people having other commitments such as college, it is hard to find a day and time for everyone to be able to attend. Director is my second role, as a director i will have to position the actors in the correct place for each scene, and ensuring that they know what they're doing. Also to co-ordinate the camera man (Malu) and the cinematography which will include low key lighting, and being in the forest this is vital to keep the lighting the same, as in different parts of the forest it is darker than others.

Bettie's roles are to focus on the editing and music. This will al be done once we have filmed the whole production therefor her only responsibility during the filming is to be a good actor. We have filmed part of the film and Bettie has being looking through the different types of music she can download that will be useful in our film. Bettie, Malu and myself have been editing the parts that we have filmed, but bettie has the final say as to what we are going to do. I think the music/sounds Bettie has chosen are very good for example, the 'house of leaves' music is played through out our production and works well to build tension, it also sets the scene as a thriller genre.

Malus roles are director of photography, screen play writer and the mis en scene co-oridnates. Malu role of being director of photography means she is in control of the camera. Malu has been assigned to camera man as she did not want to act so this role seemed to fall into place with malu. The mis en scene co ordinates, this includes a range of different responsibilities but Malu main ones are hair and make up, this will be when Bettie has her make up done to make it look like she has eaten me. Also the setting and iconography is a important part of Malu's role as she needs to ensure that the actors are using the correct iconography and are positioned in the correct way so the setting can be displayed to the audience, in order to give the film the eery and thriller effect.