Production Roles - Miss Miller

People need to be given specific roles in order to know there jobs in the opening scenes production. By doing this the process of making the scene will be done effectively in a short space of time as specfic roles have been allocated to individual(s). There are many roles that are of importance but without a certain few there would be no film such as the director, camera operator, actors and the producer, without these roles there would be no film. The director couldn't tell the actors and camera operators what to do . Without the camera operators different camera angles and footage will not be filmed and most importantly without actors there would be not film to watch.

Roles of Our Group
We decided our roles by conferring with what roles we were confident with, so our film would be quicker and more effective. We each had to do a certain amount of tasks between the four of us so we decided to do at least two each and then more if we felt we would be able to do/complete the task that the role would allocate.

Producers - Harry Hyett, Luke Durrance. A person responsible for the financial and managerial aspects of the making of the film, Together we will decided what we will need for our film and purchase the items we need and pay for it ourselves.  

 Director - Harry Hyett. A film director is the person who directs the making of the film, I felt confident in taking this particular role as I constructed the screenplay of our narrative and I know it better than anyone else in the group. This is because I decided on the final camera angles we would be filming and also fully under the role of the audience and how they would respond, It would be easier to complete the opening scene directing.

Actors - Hannah Mahoney, Luke Durrance. A persons whose profession is acting in films, as they are both willing to act in the scene and feel confident in that role, also they are both stereotypical like characters of the thriller genre. Also we had to find people who understood the narrative of the plot, which would be easily maintain by just sticking to the people in our group, me and Joshua already had roles which took up sectiosn from filming so by defeault it had to be Luke and Hannah to perform in this role.
  

Director of Photography (Cameraman) - Joshua Lester. A person whose profession is operating a film camera., Joshua took this role as he clearly knows the location of the setting very well and from this it would be best for him to take the role of cameraman and he already has an idea of what angles can be achieved at the setting. He has worked with the camera before so also knows how to effectively achieve the angles that we need for our opening scene.

Music Producers - Luke Durrance. A record producer is an individual working within the music industry producing music for a film., Luke took this role as he has a knowledge of how garage band works, and also knows various websites that can be used to find copyright free tracks to use in our thriller so therefore he felt confident with this role.
  

Screenplay Writer - Harry Hyett. Is a writer who practices the craft of screenwriting of films etc., I took this responsibility as I had a clear understanding of the story line at which we would be including in our opening thriller scene. So I took it apon myself to construct the individual narratives together and combine to make our real narrative/screenplay. This is as I felt I knew the plot better than anyone in my group and knew what elements from each we should combine to make our thriller more effective.

MES Coordinators - Hannah Mahoney, Joshua Lester, Harry Hyett,
The five elements of MES are...

Settings and Iconography, Lighting and colour. - Joshua took this aspect as he had a clear understanding of the setting.

Costume, Hair and Make Up , Body Language and Facial Expressions- Hannah Character was put together by herself and she decide to have a specific costume, and with this used her hair and make-up to make an orphan like character. She also helped with the design of the other character.

Positioning of Characters within the frame - Joshua as the camera with the help of myself will position the characters where he wants them to be on screen this is as he took the role of being the Director of Photography so therefore it is his and my job to decide where we want actors in relation to there position on screen as it is effected by every camera angle that we use it will be an import role made easy by the help of two people.

   Editors - Harry Hyett, Luke Durrance, Joshua Lester. A person who is in charge and determines the final content of the film. We all have a basic understanding of the editing software that we will be using so together we would work together to put our film together. We gained this experience from the preliminary task that we were set before we started filming our opening scene. 

Evaluation of Roles of the Group

By assigning everyone important, different roles, it will make for a smoother running of the creation of our film, this is because everyone will be contributing to the make and completion of the opening scene of the film. It will make the filming take a lot less longer to complete and editing will be quicker as we have a team of three working together to get the job done. If we were to not spread the roles out evenly as a team this will mean that some people will be doing more work than others with will make for a slow process of completing the task set.

Harry Hyett - Director, Editor, Screenplay Writer, Producer. I think I completed all my tasks well. I constructed a organised and combined narrative for our opening scene and then went on the direct for our film as I knew the events of the scene well. In addition I also spent time with Luke arranging a purchase of a knife for our film.

Luke Durrance -Actor, Editor, Music Producer, Producer - I think Luke completed all of his tasks very well, Luke was a good actor and took directions from me and Joshua when we were filming, Luke was a help when we were editing contributing ideas of how the final product should look and again he made the purchase of the knife we need for our scene as well.

Hannah Mahoney - Actor, MES Coordinator - Hannah was a very good actor she was confident in her role of acting as the main character, She also made her character believable and it was very conventional to the thriller genre. She done her own Hair, and Make Up which was really good which therefore made her character even better.

Joshua Lester - Director Of Photography, Editor, MES Coordinator,Co- Producer. - Joshua was a very good cameraman, he took all of my instructions that I gave to him and even talked back suggesting how we should come over problems etc. He found a good location for the setting which had good lighting so was conventional to the thriller genre. Again alike Luke he was very helpful when we were editing and help along the process of putting the film together.

I think if anything could have been done differently I think we should have allocated roles such as Director/Cameraman to more than one person, this  is as these roles are play a massive role in the outcome of the result of our final opening scene. If we were to do it again I think me and Joshua should combine together as joint Directors and Directors of Photography as then we will both have a clearer understand of what we both want to achieve by the end of filming our opening scene. In addition we can also confer ideas to make the opening scene more effective. This can be seen by our collaboration in the positioning of characters on screen where we worked together.