My two job roles for the psycho reproduction where Producer and Director of the Documentary
PRODUCER
From what I have been reading and my understanding of this job role it was my job for this Production to oversee everything from pre to post production ,find solutions to problems and control the budget.
This is a list online i found of producer tasks that i am basing this evaluation on
1) Coordinate the activities of writers, directors, managers, and other personnel throughout the production process.
2) Monitor post-production processes in order to ensure accurate completion of all details.
3) Perform management activities such as budgeting, scheduling, planning, and marketing.
4) Determine production size, content, and budget, establishing details such as production schedules and management policies.
5) Compose and edit scripts, or provide screenwriters with story outlines from which scripts can be written.
6) Conduct meetings with staff to discuss production progress and to ensure production objectives are attained.
I don't think i quite over saw everything during production and in reality that would be impossible for anybody with so much going on and the fact that when i was reading up about Producers there was also associate and assistant producer whose sole job is help out the main producer just backs up my point that its not a one man job .
I did over see as much as I could during pre production which is when we went out and bought a lot of the stuff we needed (props,wig and tiles) with the director and sometimes 1 or 2 other members of the crew because one of my Jobs was controlling the Budget I was there for all the purchases except the online ones.
I also attended every production meeting whether it be with all of the crew or 1 or 2 of us, Outside of production meetings I worked closely with the Director Jamie reminding him of things that needed doing over message on Facebook.
I suggested a bunch of locations we never ended up using one we actually visited (leisure center) I also attempted to join 4 Bridges casting on Facebook to help find an actress which we found really early in the process just by good luck someone in the uni over heard one of our production meetings and showed interest.
I was also in the edit sweets during editing so from the list I took as an example of my job role I wasn't able to tick them all of because some did not even apply to me in this case E.G (compose and edit scripts) but the ones that did I think I did a good job at in my opinion considering at the beginning i wasn't sure what i needed to do and had never been producer on anything before.
DOCUMENTARY DIRECTOR
As Director of the behind the scenes documentary i had to oversee everything that went with that. I had it much easier than Jamie the director of the recreation i didn't have to find actors or pay for anything I also had more creative freedom instead of working of a set script.
The first thing that was shot for the documentary was a two camera shoot auditioning our actress Beth in the studio both my assigned documentary camera man and the recreation camera man filmed while i boomed one camera and Jamie did the interview the other 2 were not there because this happened at night and they had trains to catch
One of my favorite things that i think will turn out really well in the documentary was the interviews not only was there great answers to the questions but I was able to take advantage of some cool props and a brick wall backdrop which where just lying around in and out of the studio. They all made great scenery instead of the dull black curtains in the studio and made the end product look 10 times better and dare I say look more professional.
A lot of behind the scenes footage was also shot on set thanks to my documentary camera man (Nathan Cawley) who I directed into filming anything on the set I wanted for the documentary or thought would be useful e.g setting up for a scene during filming a scene also any planning and problem solving that was taking place at times I also just asked him to walk round and film anything he thought was interesting.
The only complaint i have about this job is I and Andrew the documentary editor didn't have enough time as i had liked in the edit suite due to not having access to the only machine where the tapes could be captured before Christmas and the first few days of January there was technical problems with machines also with Andrew and I and everyone else being so new to the editing programs we didn't always know what we where doing so had to ask Lee for help a lot of the time. Also Andrew could not always stay at night because he had to catch a train home.
In retrospect getting everything i needed to edit with was relatively easy it was just the editing process where a lot of things let us down (tech,time and lack of experience).
