Production roles - Miss Miller

People need to be allocated specific roles when creating a film because, it makes everything a lot more organised, it becomes more organised because people understand what elements of the film they have to focus on, and if there was a problem in there field they wouldn't have any other people distracting them and telling them the wrong things. People who are good at certain things will be allocated the roles that they specialise in, which allows the production to be more efficient and successful.

Some of the roles used in productions are:

• Producer -  A is a person responsible for the financial and managerial aspects of the making of a film.  

• Director - A person who is in charge of an activity, department, or organisation.

• Actor - A person whose profession is acting on the stage, in films, or on television

• Director of Photography - A cinematographer is the chief over the camera and lighting crews working on a film, and responsible for achieving artistic and technical decisions related to the image

• Sound Technician - They prepare, operate and maintain technical equipment to amplify, enhance, mix or reproduce sound.

• Screenplay Writer - A screenwriter or scriptwriter or scenarist is a writer who practices the craft of screenwriting, writing screenplays on which mass media such as film

• MES Co-ordinators -  This is someone who controls costumes, make-up, iconography etc

• Editors - Somebody who makes the film flow by editing the scenes and cutting things out

Leandra: Actress/sound technicians/screenplay writer/producer

Nathaliah: Editor/mise-en-scene coordinator/screenplay writer/producer

James: Director/director of photography/screenplay writer/producer

We decided who would take on what role by the amount of responsibility that we can handle and the abilities that we possess because each one of us have our own abilities and we use them in different ways as we have different ideas and plans to make something. 

I was assigned the role of director because I have the ability to take control in difficult situations so for me to overlook the whole project. I believe this will help improve our sequence because if i'm able to take control when things get difficult we will be able to overcome it quicker and and get on with the work without out any more problems. The director and has numerous amount of abilities to make the film a lot better and believable. I also have the responsibility as director of photography because I am the only one with the ability to work a camera and be able to use it to create character representation by using different camera angles in the scene and to know how to introduce a character or scene. I was also given the role of screenplay writer as well because if we incorporate the three of us in our group we can create a good piece of script that will be interesting but not too complicated that it will confuse the audience. 

Leandra is one of the lead characters as the actress playing the victim because she has the ability and responsibility to act appropriately according to the scene and able to make the correct facial expressions and act the correct way to connect with the audience, also to make them feel a part of the film. I believe by making Leandra the actress it will improve our sequence because she is the one in the group who fits the 'vulnerable female' look, so the viewers will be able to relate to it more. She looks more like a victim because of her vulnerable posture and body language, also our character representation we chose to go for a girl who was a typical English white girl which was the whole description that Leandra was able to fit into and to complete because of her look. So far in our filming she has succeeded as the victim because she has been able to pull off a vulnerable look,

Leandra is also a screenplay writer because she has the ability to make a story and to plan out who says what line and when and also including narrative words and actions so that they work and are synchronised with the words and the scene that the victim and the villain are in. I believe by allocating this role to Leandra it will help improve our screenplay because she is the best she has the widest vocabulary in the group so this will help improve our screenplay  Also it helps the camera man and producer to know where the camera should be placed, also this helped the sound technician which was also Leandra to know what type of sounds should be put in the specific scene. This made the film a lot more enjoyable and the music related to the opening sequence created suspense and tension which is what we aim to make the audience feel tense as they see it all unfold. 

Nathaliah was assigned the role of the editor because she has the ability to know how to make the scene a lot better and more tense. This will help us to create a successful opening sequence because Nathaliah has the responsibility of creativity which is what she owns, a creative spirit which will enable us to have a successful opening sequence. Nathaliah is also the mise-en-scene coordinator because she has the ability to set a scene, use certain iconography, lighting, colour, hair, make up and also positioning the characters in a certain way to make the characters become represented in certain ways. This will be useful as we intend to make the villain seem scary and intimidating while we make the victim seem vulnerable and small. This will show the audience which character is what and how their actions take part in the opening sequence. Nathaliah also played a part as a screenplay writer as she helped my by using her own individual ideas to incorporate her own ideas into the script to make the opening sequence a lot more believable and interesting to grab the audiences attention. 
We assigned all three of us the role of producer because we each have the ability to set up the scene and not apply it to one specific person because they may not have an idea that will make the scene better, instead someone else in the group may have a better idea therefore it would be best to assign all three of us the role of producer.     
                     
Having specific roles and jobs in a film/opening sequence is better because it means that we are each able to focus on our own jobs and then feedback to the group instead of there being no organisation and there being a problem and a lack of communication or there may be a disagreement in the group and may leave one of the group members unhappy and not satisfied with the end result of the opening sequence.