Narrative - Roles recap

In this weeks lesson we spent a good portion of the lesson going over the roles and responsibilities for different people in a short film crew:

Director:

• Clear vision of the film
• creative overview
• works with actors
• keeps control on set - also the job of assistant director
• artist

Producer:

• make sure everyone is happy - set runs smoothly
• paperwork
• scout locations
• get actors
• foster a creative environment
• create schedules
• funding / budget
• collaborate creatively with the director 
• risk assessments
• make sure film gets made

Camera operator 

• Story boards - with director and prodcuer
• film
• set up shots
• collaborate with actors
• lighting
• white balancing
• technical equipemtn - checking and testing

Sound

• recording sound on set
• Foley
• collaborate with director for design
• music - with producer

Art director 

• Set design
• Props
• Costumes
• Mood boards
• work with editor and camera for lighting and colour
• budget to buy or borrow
• mise-en-scene
• character continuity

editor 

• brings footage together
• helps with a fresh eye
• sound matches dialogue
• colourist
• logs footage

after this we looked at a few scenes from the shining - Stanley Kubrik. we were looking at alot of the above to see how things had been used to create certain effects and to trigger emotions within the audience.