Studio work pt.1: Becoming a producer.
Research
I didn't have any proper experience of producing before thing project. Even though I had several "successful" attempts. But this year I decided to leave my comfort zone and do something that I am scared of. And yes, I was scared of producing, because I wasn't sure if I have capability to have all the responsibilities of a producer.
My research is based on my experience.
My research is based on my experience.
Experience 1.
During the summer 2015 I had a chance to be on a big production. I was just a photographer and runner, but I saw the entire process of production: choosing the location, creating call sheets, compromising the time changes and problem solving. I saw how we always were behind the schedule, the stress and communication between units. It was a wonderful experience. I understood a lot.
Experience 2.
August 2016 - my internship in Kode Media. This internship gave me a lot more of the experience, than jut being on set. As an assistant of PA I had a chance to help with research and paperwork myself. All the information for call sheets was elected by me, I helped contacting the locations and did some other running jobs in regards to pre-production. This internship made me think about producing more, because I started feeling like producers have more control and more responsibilities within the production.
Overall, I think I was ready to bring all the experiences to reality and test myself. But even before that I had to know that exactly do producers do during three stages of film production.
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| Producers have a lot more responsibilities and to do lists during the preproduction stage. |
With that information I was ready to start working.
- We had 4 or 5 meetings for brainstorming before we actually started the process.
- I personally prepared a shared folder on my google drive, so that we could share all our paperwork online. Right now, you can't see it, but in the beginning there was a folder with all the templates for future documents (call sheets, risk assessments, production documents etc).
- We also discussed all our roles. My main mistake here was not explaining the workflow we will have on set, but in my defence, at that point we were not really thinking about the set, we concentrated on the script, budget, concept and treatment.
~ M.G.
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