Planning Miss Begum: Production Roles

Production Roles

Production roles are important within films since these assigned different people with different jobs within making an film. These would be people who are normally skilled in a particular are of producing a film. There are several roles in this film this includes The Director, The Producer, Lighting Operator, Location Manager, Camera operator, The Editor, Costume Hair and Makeup, Storyboard artist and the sound operator. Below are which person in our group are assigned to what role and why.

The Current roles are

The Director- Shakil
The director is the person who supervises the making of the film and making sure that the film is
produce properly and then is presented to the production the company. The main responsibility of the the director is to ensure that the film is made, make sure that film is an high quality condition. And give instructions to the crew or make necessary changes to the film. The person in-charge of the film making is shakil since he had good communication skills as well.

The Producer- Baris

The producer work closely with the director on making the film and has quite a lot of response ability over the production and making of the film. Before sending it of to the distributor. The producer has other responsibility including securing rights for using music and choosing people for different roles in the production. For this role we deiced that Baris would be the most suitable for this task.

Editor- Elliot

This is the person who is in charge of the editing and the creation off the film. The person usually creates the film by using editing software and equipment to create a film. The editor may use different techniques to help portray a scene or certain events. An example would be the use of fade to black at the end of an scene or film to either end the film on an cliffhanger or the film is at an end.

The person who is in charge of all editing will be me The reason why is because i had more experience off using editor tools and techniques since i have created videos before for other projects in and outside of schools. Also everyone will be helping me throughout the early editing stages and during the making of final parts of the film

Lighting Operator-Shakil

The Lighting operator is in charge off all the lighting while filming. This includes create lighting for the scenes during filming and in charge of all lighting and the use of lighting on set and during filming. The lighting operator needs to make sure that lighting levels are suitable for that scene and includes the use of back lighting and low key lighting. As well as being mindful of other lighting and how to stop that from interfering with the scene. For this role Shakil was chosen since we discussed as an group that our preliminary task we had too much lighting and shakil noticed this when we were editing and also offed to help us with lighting.


Location Manager-Elliot

This is the person who is in charge of the locations of where the film would take place and the
locations where the scenes will take place. This case i will be the location manager this is because i found an suitable location to film in the preliminary task. As-well as i also offered  several locations for filming throughout the production which we will be using in the opening scene.

Camera Operator-Elliot

This is the person who is in charge of  the camera equipment and the camera. hes also in-charge of the use of camera techniques within the producing the film. This includes the angle of the camera/cameras the movement and the different shots they take with the camera. Also everyone else will help will be helping me throughout the filming since i cant do some certain shots this include shots that are in small spaces.

Costume,Hair and makeup artist-Shakil

This is the person who is in charge of the costume hair and makeup for the actors this includes doing the makeup for the actors or choosing the costume that the character should wear for that particular scene. They need to apply the correct amount of make up and understand whats happening throughout the scene so that they can choose the correct amount of make-up and choose the correct costume.

For this role me and the group deiced that shakil be taking on this role since hes more aware of the storyboard and also know hows to apply makeup and what the actors should wear.


Storyboard Artist

The storyboard Artist is the person who produce the images of an storyboard and notes for the film. The storyboard will help visualize different shots and different parts of the film and is like an guide for the film. Producing the storyboard can be done by one person or as an group of people, For this role all of will be help making the storyboard since we would need to draw different scenes and would be more easier if we all took part.

Sound operator-Baris

The sound operator is in charge of all the sounds that we are planning to use within the film. The person with this role needs to choose the appropriate sound for different as well as working with the director on ways to implement the sound within the film. The sound operator is also in charge of all the sound equipment and the capturing sound and using software that will allow you to edit or manipulate sound.

The person who will be in charge of sound will be baris. Baris has experience in making and creating sounds and would help him develop skills within using the sound editing or manipulation software.