Wednesday, May 2, 2012

The Craft of Film Production

The work of a Film Producer:

My Professional interest is to become a Film Producer. I will go in dept to explain some of the various fictions of a film producer. The producer is responsible for the film project starting from pre-production, to production until finial post production. A film project has many phases and the producer is the project manager, ensuring that the project stays in the attended budget. The Production process is broken down in three stages. Which are planning, scripting and storyboarding. Production is the actual shooting and sound recording of the project and Post Production is everything between production and creating the final master copy. www.mediacollege.com/glossary/p/production-process.html The Media college web site explained the importance of financing and the steps that financing involve which happens before pre-production. Financing is imperative because this is how the producer gains the revenues to fund the movie project. Once the project is chosen and the producer is approved for the proper funding, the next stage would be to begin to build a team by hiring a screenwriter to write a film script. The team must next include a director to manage the artistic vision of the film script. The producer, director and screenwriter work closely to visually represent the script and its themes focus. The producer with the advice of the director goes further to hire an additional time member called a Casting Director. The Casting Director has to be given a film project spec to let them know what types of people are needed to fill the casting positions. In order to find actors and people that would properly support the films purpose most producers have a master list of Casting Director that fit a certain criteria. I have placed a link below for more information regarding casting and crews hiring, to stay on course, the Producer usually leave the casting calls and casting project up to the Casting Director and the Film Director. http://www.videojug.com/interview/hiring-cast-and-crew-for-your-independent-film-2.
The work is not done for the Producer; the producers must next hire an art director, camera crew, and an editor. A films budget has to include all of these important peoples compensation for their work and dedication. The most obvious thought is that all of these steps must be taken before production begins. Therefore, Film producer must have exceptionally good planning skills and a general eye for creative process which is also called story boarding. The craft of film production is not as easy as it may look after a movies finished product. The idea is that all of these skills have to be developed and nurtured before a producer can initially be considered a top notch producer. Most movie producers start their career as production assistance and work their way up to become top notch. I plan to get my experience working the set as a script reader, which can be an entry level position and could potentially lead to working on my own production. In conclusion, I have found that hard work pays in a sluggish economy. I also found that there are jobs in this field and from my research on average a film producer can make $30,115 - $ 101,842 per year salary.
http://www.payscale.com/research/US/Job=Film%2FTV_Producer/Salary. It has come to my attention that this job requires a persistence of understanding of unique visual disciplines and the ability to collaborate with other individuals to form a polished and likable finished product.

Cited Sources:

1) Hiring cast and crew for independent films

2) How stuff work
entertainment.howstuffwork.com/highest-payingjobs-filmindustry2.htm


3) Payscale 


4)  Production process







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