Production Documentary notes

The most important part of any production is the Producer. The Producer is more important than the director. his role consists of seeing the film from the very beginning right through to the end.

The Producer also has to  find an idea, find the director, find the right script, and secure the funding. The producer’s job is to protect the director, and let them do what they want, input their ideas into the film. The producer has four different jobs; The development, Raising the money, making it, and then taking it to market.

The next step in the production process is getting the script. When the right script is written, the producer then takes the script to the director. The script is seen as a blueprint for the director to apply their ideas to. The script then gets re-written between 10-15 times, just to make sure that every detail is added in. When the script is finished, the producer and director then start work on casting.

Then the producer has to secure funding for the film maybe from the BBC, Channel 4, Film Fund, Regional Film Fund all of which will usually invest from £3 million-£10 million which is a good sum of money for a british made films. British films tend to focus more on getting the funding rather than how they are to get the profits, whereas the Americans do this the other way around and focus directly on securing a tidy profit.

The producer & director now need to draw up a plan. they need to consider hat has to be filmed – where/when/visual effects, night scenes, hardest scenes, and then put these into a schedule in which they must stick to.

The final part of the production is the marketing, this is the distribution of the film. This is the largest part of the production and can normally cost up to double the budget. This is to advertise the film on posters & adverts like the one shown below.