2.2 Describe a range of key job roles and responsibilities in the film industry.
Producer: person who manages the production of the film from beginning to end. They plan and distribute jobs to the people that they hire, so that everything runs as smoothly as possible, and they organize the financing of the film, they are pretty much the manager of the film.
Director: they are the person in charge of the shooting the film. they ore often seen as the sole creator of the films they take part in, but they are always supported by a huge network of other workers.
Cinematographer: they work closely with the director to capture the script in the way that the director wants, they plan the lighting of the scene as well as the movement of the cameras, their role is particularly important when it comes to capturing the desired atmosphere for each shot.
Editor: they arrange the sequence of the different shots and have a huge effect on how the film turns out (as often many different shots of the same scene have been taken).
Screenwriter: the screenwriter is the person who writes the script, they are vital in making sure the film plays out in a logic sequence (everything is in the correct order and makes sense) they also make sure that the dialogue seems natural to the audience.
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Hi Elfie, this is great stuff. To improve, could you talk about how these roles work together to achieve a collaborative project? Is there any crossover between the roles? At what stage in the process of filmmaking, i.e., pre-production, production, post-production, is each role necessary?
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