Unit 2: Teamwork (Section D)

As previously mentioned most of my main duties as producer took place in pre-production such scheduling and preparing for any issues. This gave me the opportunity, however, to work more closely with other team members and provide help wherever needed.

Director:

I worked very closely with the director and acted as something of a ‘co-director’. I would give a second opinion if required and generally helped in any way that I could and that was necessary but did not intrude on her vision of the film. Also, I took on similar responsibilities as a runner and sought to any things the director required.

Cinematographer:

Again, I did not work with the cinematographer as a producer, I was there to give a hand with the more hefty equipment when moving it around and to act as a second pair of eyes in checking there wasn’t anything unwanted in shot. Secondly, I held the boom pole for capturing audio in the scenes. I had to work carefully with the cinematographer to keep the boom positioned out of shot and, as she was the one listening to the audio, making sure it wasn’t too loud.

I generally worked with other members of the team, including actors, in keeping on time and dealing with any issues that arose whilst filming. Fortunately to say, no issues arose during filming that were unexpected or hindered our production in anyway. When the actors were getting cold due to the weather, we had planned and brought extra jumpers and layers which were used effectively.