Production Roles - Miss Miller

In order to create film, you'll need a film crew which are a group of people hired by a production company for the purpose of producing a film or motion picture. A film crew is divided into different departments, each of which specialises in a specific aspect of the production. The purpose of having different production roles in film making is because if one was to do all the work it will be time consuming and when the one person doing all the work makes a mistake, the blame will all be at them which will be unfair as they were working by themselves. Furthermore, it is easier to separate jobs within the production crew as everyone can do what their best at which will be helpful towards the creation of the film to make it as successful as it can be. The main roles in a film crew are:

Directors - Their role has a creative control over the project which controls a film's artistic and dramatic aspects, and visualises the script while guiding the technical crew and actors in the perfection of that vision.

Producers - A producer has an overall control on every aspect of a film's production. They bring together and approve the whole production team. Their key responsibility is to create an environment where the talents of the cast and crew can succeed. 

Director Of Photography - This is the person who is in technical charge of how a film is lit and shot.

MES coordinators - This person or group of people are in charge of the Mise en scene within the film e.g costumes, iconography and hair & makeup. 

Editors - Simply cuts the film together 

Music Producers - Are in charge of the sounds and music included in the film to make it better

Screenplay Writer - A screenplay writer is a writer who practises the craft of screenwriting, writing screenplays on which mass media such as films, television programs, comics or video games are based. 

Actors - are the characters included within the film, otherwise there would be nothing to film 

As this is a group production, we decided to allocate each other multiple roles that suited our strength as this will be benefit our final product. The reason why we split the roles between each others is because it allowed us to each have a job that we believed we can do and also feel comfortable doing making the work environment calm as everyone knows what they're doing. 

The roles I'm responsible for is the screenplay writing, director and producer. We allocated these jobs for me as the narrative for our thriller was mine so it made sense that I was the screenplay writer. Also because the narrative was my idea the directing and producing of the scene was in my hands as I was the one who understood the narrative more, so it was easier for me to visualise what we wanted our thriller to look like. As I'm experienced with drama as well, I know a lot about directing and creating a piece of drama as I have acted in one before, so being the director was easy for me to do. 

The responsibilities Rishika took on, was being the director of photography and editor. We decided to give Rishika the role of the being the director of photography as in our preliminary task, she was the one who was behind the camera shooting the clips needed. Due to her the success of the photography she shot in this task and how comfortable she was using the camera, it was only best if we gave her the job to control the camera movements in our thriller. Also, giving Rishika the role of being the editor was simply because of the way she edited her Opening credits which we decided to follow at the end. Like using the camera, she is comfortable editing on the software Final Cut X pro which will  be beneficial to our thriller making it run as smoothly as possible. 

Finally, the roles we allocated Ella was being the music producer and MES coordinator. We chose to make Ella in charge of the Mise En Scene as she knew where to get all the needed iconography such as blood capsules from and also as Ella is good with doing make up, it would benefit us as she will do the makeup and decided what the girls are wearing for our thriller. Also we gave her the role of producing the sounds for our thriller because Ella knows how evaluate and listen carefully to a sounds and reflect back onto them. So with this speciality she can figure out the sounds online for what we will need our thriller to make it more engaging to watch and successful. 


I believe that the roles we gave each other suited us best and helped make our thriller the best it can be. I would not change anything about the jobs we individually had as we done them so well and it was easier to work around with as everyone had an idea in their category on what they were doing. An example of the great outcomes of the jobs we had each is that I was the director. Since none of us were actors in our thriller, I had to tell the 3 actors who kindly agreed to participate what the narrative was and guided them on what to do in the frames they were in. This was very helpful for the actors as they hadn't of been planning with us so it would of came to a surprise on what they were doing but with the help of my directing they understood what to do and what the narrative was about making their acting more conventional to our thriller. 

Also what Ella did well within her role of being the MES coordinator, she helped the actors in our thriller have an understanding of what they will need to wear in the scenes so that'll be appropriate to our thriller. Also, when filming Ella directed and ordered the actors on what body language and facial expressions they should express in order to match our expectations for our characters. When editing our thriller, Ella was in charge of the sounds so she went online and searched the most conventional sounds we could include within our thriller. I helped her with this but if I suggested something that I thought would be perfect, I would inform her to make the final decision. 

Lastly, Rishikas role was very much well suited as again she was brilliant and comfortable with editing the preliminary task but when me and Ella were not in the lesson where we had to edit, Rishika took upon her role and edited the whole 2 minutes of our thriller to an acceptable standard. Even though we were not there to give opinions or anything, She done well with creating a small rough cut for us to work around with and improve when we were all in the lesson together which was very helpful. Also her directing with the camera was also good as she was the only one who was in control with the camera, unless it was a point of view shot. When filming Rishika knew exactly what kind of shots she needed to use with the guide from the group storyboard but also, when it was the shots from the characters perspective she helped guide them on how they should hold the camera and record.

 Overall, I believe the production roles we each had were suitable for our individual abilities, and helped us create a successful thriller opening scene. I honestly think that if we were to do anything differently we wouldn't have worked as well as we did with the roles given when filming, so again I am proud of the success we have made.