Filming roles

There are many different roles to be addressed and taken throughout the day of our shoot. The list of roles are:

• The director - This person is responsible for organising and helping assist, direct and instruct the actors or models on the shoot. For this role we suggested that Lara was the director for our shoot because she is good at giving directions without taking the principal of being too bossy or rude to the actor which in the real world happens a lot and is known to make a director a bad director.

• The Cameraperson - This role is all about being in control of the camera whilst following the image and vision of the director for each shot. They need to measure up the distance from the camera to the model or actor and then they can gather what lens they need to use. They also need to work with the playback person to assist them where they are supposed to stand within the frame and when to move out of the frame so that the recording can proceed. The person that we figured should take over this role was me because of my experience with cameras and the knowledge that I have gathered from doing a level photography. 

• The art director - This person is responsible for creating the directors vision in an artistic way. They are responsible for the location, props, costumes, makeup and they have to work within the rule of continuity. The person that we think would be the best at this role is Georgie because she studies A level art and is a very creative person with the flow of ideas she has. 

• The producer - This person is responsible for overseeing all aspects of the shoot and organising the other three members of the production team to make sure that everyone knows the duties of their role and ensuring that the process of shooting is smooth and flows well. For this role we thought that we could all work as a team well enough and communicate so that this role did not have to be used, as such as there are only four people in our group.

• Sound playback and lighting desk - This role includes using the iPad to play the song at the time of its queue and when the director says 'playback'. The person holds the iPad in front of the camera so that it is visible in the frame and so that the director can see the listed numbers on the screen so that they can relate to this when editing the material. The lighting desk also involves controlling the lighting and checking whether this lighting creates the right sense of mood and vision that the art director wants to see within the frame. For this role we were thinking that Claudia would fulfil the expectations for this because she is good at evaluating where the lighting fits the mood that we are trying to portray and is used to using the playback software on the iPad.