Roles and Responsibilities

My group have now started our film trailers planning phase so the first thing that we have decided to do is assign the roles within our group so we all know what we need to get done and so that none of us get confused on what needs to get done later on in our films production. The roles that need to be undertaken are the Producer,  Director,  Screenwriter, Cinematographer, Editor and Mise-en-scene furthermore we also need two people to design a poster for our film and a magazine front cover to go along with our film trailer. The roles we have chose can be seen below:

Producer of trailer: All
Director and Screenwriter of trailer: Ash
Cinematographer of trailer: Will
Editor of trailer: Luke
Mise-en-scene: Ash
Film poster designer: Luke
Film magazine designer: Will

As you can see all of us who chosen to be the producer as it is arguably the most important role for the planning as it involves making the main decisions about where the production will be going this can range from changing the trailers plot, actors, location and most other parts of the trailer. Because of this we have decided that all of us would be a joint producer this is to help prevent any major creative difference which could lead to arguments in production and halt it all together.

Next there is the Director of the trailer. The director role is also a very important role as they will have complete control over creating the actual trailer whereas the producer has control over the entire project. The director will manage things within the trailer such as how scenes are shot and the actors performances and can choose to change them if they wish however major decisions will still have to be discussed with the rest of the group before being applied as it could change key elements of the trailer.

The screenwriter is the writer of the trailer and will produce the scripts for all of the characters in the trailer while giving a brief outline of what will be going on in each scene. This is an important role in production as without them the actors would be unaware of what was going to happen in each scene and would most likely be unaware of what their lines are as well making production much more difficult.

A cinematographer is the director of photography in a film crew which means that they will have control of all the camerawork in the film such as what shots are being used?, what camera is going to be used?, is it going to have a filter? Furthermore the cinematographer will also be our camera man during production as they will be familiar with camera shots and angles to make the scenes look professional.

The editor of the trailer will be tasked with working on the film after it filming has finished so the editor will be placing them all in order by cutting them all together. Furthermore, the editor will be also be adding important information to the trailer such as its release date and the films title the editor may also edit the footage to give it a certain colour tint. I have chosen to do this role as I was the one who edited my short film last year so I have some experience in the editing software that is going to be used.

The next role that we have is a Mise-en-scene researcher who will be the person who we research the location that we are going to be shooting in so that we can make sure that the location is suitable for filming. They will also be responsible for keeping a list of the props and costumes that we need to get before we start filming

The last two roles a different from the previous ones this is due to them not entirely focusing on the production of the film trailer. This is because these roles involve the production of a film poster and a film magazine cover to go along side our film trailer. I am going to be creating the film poster as I have experience using Photoshop as I also study photography and know about a lot of the tools in the software.