Research Into Filming Roles

Research Into Filming Roles

In this post i will be researching into the various filming roles that are needed when on set. This is hopefully give me and my group a better idea of the main role we want to take when filming our opening sequence.

Director

The director is the creative lead and is holds the key creative vision within their heads. They must direct the cast and other members of the crew and work collaboratively with everyone to ensure the most possible final product is created. They foresee the process from pre to post production.

Camera Operator

The camera operator must shoot the action of what is taking place in the scene. They must
have full control of the camera and be on the ball as they would need to ready to film when they are needed.

Editor

The editor is the person responsible from turning the camera footage into the film that will be distributed. They must manage cutting footage, adding effects, creating transitions and putting
the the film together in a cohesive and structured way according to the storyboard.

Art Director

The Art director works closely with the director in order to understand the main vision of the film and what is should look like. They are responsible for determining the mood, tone and general color palettes and must ensure all the
artwork used in the production process lines up with the director's vision.

Producer

The Producer is in charge of managing the budget and scope of the film or TV product, they approve various production expenses and
work the director's creative ideas and try to bring them to life.

Filming Roles in Our Production Group

As a production we group we then discussed which role we each would like to carry out; we first agreed that we would all be the art director and producer since there are only three of us and we all need to be on the lookout in terms of how things look and keeping continuity in place as well as the fact that we are technically all producing this opening sequence together which is why we are all producers.

Meadow will be taking the role of editor, Lila will be the main camera operator and I will be the director on set. These roles however are only guidance as we will all need to be on the ball and be able to help out in any way possible.

I wanted to be director because I really enjoy coming up with and expressing creative ideas and it is something i am possibly looking at for university. I will need to ensure that all the props, costumes and camera equipment is all being transported to the filming location and to make sure the actors are fully comfortable whilst on set.

However this means i need to oversee the entire production and make sure everything is how it should be which includes direction of actors, placement of props, calling out filming commands such as 'stand by', 'camera roll', 'action' and 'cut'.