{FILM PRODUCTION} ~ Job Roles In Film Promotion

{Director}:

Directors are the creative leads of the film, meaning they are the ones in charge of the film. They use their creativity, imagination to bring their stories to life. They hold the creative vision throughout the whole process, from pre-production through to the final edit.

Directors start with a script, and work with a Screenwriter and sometimes a script editing team.

You'll be surprised how many Directors are Screenwriters themselves.

https://www.screenskills.com/careers/job-profiles/film-and-tv-drama/development-film-and-tv-drama-job-profiles/director/

{Requirements to becoming a Director}:

• OCR Cambridge Technical Diploma/Extended Diploma in Performing Arts

• BTEC National Diploma/Extended Diploma in Performing Arts

• BTEC National Extended Diploma in Creative Digital Media Production

• Aim Awards Diploma in Creative and Digital Media

• OCR Technical Diploma in Digital Media (Moving Image and Audio Production)

• BTEC National Diploma in Film and Television Production

• BTEC National Diploma in Film and Television Visual Effects

• RSL Diploma/Extended Diploma in Creative and Performing Arts

• UAL Diploma/Extended Diploma in Creative Media Production and Technology

• UAL Diploma/Extended Diploma in Performing and Production Art

{Screenwriter}:

Screenwriters are people who show creativity in their work by writing and developing screenplays for film or TV drama. They do it either based on an original idea, by adapting an existing story into a screenplay or by joining an existing project (TV). Screenwriters always have to prepare their script in a way that enables readers to understand the setting, emotion and the way it will work on screen.

They work with development producers and their assistants. They are sometimes assisted by researchers, who provide information to allow for screenplays to be fact-checked. In TV drama, screenwriters might work with story producers and storyliners as well as script editors. They collaborate with producers, directors and actors to draft and redraft their script, often working to tight deadlines.

https://www.screenskills.com/careers/job-profiles/film-and-tv-drama/development-film-and-tv-drama-job-profiles/screenwriter/

{Requirements}:

• BTEC National Extended Diploma in Creative Digital Media Production

• Aim Awards Diploma in Creative and Digital media

• OCR Technical Diploma in Digital Media (Moving Image and Audio Production)

• BTEC National Diploma in Film and Television Production

• UAL Diploma/Extended Diploma in Creative Media Production and Technology

{Producer}:

They are the overall decision makers. Producers will come up with imaginative story ideas and hire creative and interesting writers or choose and secure rights to scripts. They decide on the scale and budget of the film and source financing from investors, studios and distributors.

They work with creative ideas from the director and approve production costs.

https://www.screenskills.com/careers/job-profiles/film-and-tv-drama/development-film-and-tv-drama-job-profiles/producer/

{Requirements}:

• BTEC National Extended Diploma in Creative Digital Media Production

• Aim Awards Diploma in Creative and Digital Media

• OCR Technical Diploma in Digital Media (Moving Image and Audio Production)

• BTEC National Diploma in Creative Media Production and Technology

• UAL Diploma/Extended Diploma in Creative Media Production and Technology

{Development Producer}:

Development producers are employers who find stories and scripts and get them into good enough shape to be published/commissioned by a TV channel or made into a feature film.

They read screenplays, analyse their strengths and weaknesses and assess if they have potential and will appeal to audiences. They make notes on how it can be improved (script notes) and ask the scriptwriter to re-write accordingly. So in other words, they give feedback on what needs to be improved before sending it to TV channels or film industries.

The story producers work on dramas that run across several episodes and are written by more than one screenwriter. They are responsible for providing the framework for the story as a whole. They help writers develop a story, create narrative arcs and then communicate the structure to the script department

{Requirements}:

• BTEC National Extended Diploma in Creative Digital Media Production.

• Aim Awards Diploma in Creative and Digital Media

• OCR Technical Diploma/Extended Diploma in Business

• OCR Technical Diploma in Digital Media (Moving Image and Audio Production)

• BTEC National Diploma in Film and Television Production

• BTEC National Extended Diploma in Creative Digital Media Production

• UAL Diploma/Extended Diploma in Creative Media Production and Technology

{Distribution Executive}:

In the film industry, Distribution Executives go to film markets (events/independents or inside of the film festivals focus on the activity of buying and selling films, the reason for attending), where they look at films and acquire them from production companies or sales agents. They deliver the film materials to them and they plan the release, including how to market the film, targeting the film's core audience to bring in the most profit.

https://www.screenskills.com/careers/job-profiles/film-and-tv-drama/sales-and-distribution/distribution-executive/#:~:text=Distribution%20executives%20get%20films%20into,the%20rights%20to%20release%20them.

{A level courses for becoming a Distribution Executive}:

If you want to go straight into a job or apprenticeship, the following Level 3 vocational qualifications will equip you:

• AQA Foundation Technical Level Business: Marketing Communications

• AQA Technical Level Business: Marketing

• NCFE Diploma in Skills for Business: Sales and Marketing

{Vocational Courses for becoming a Distribution Executive}:

If you want to go to university, A-levels or Highers in business studies, economics, English, film studies, politics or sociology are useful. Or you might want to take the following Level 3 vocational qualifications:

• OCR Technical Diploma/Extended Diploma in Business

• BTEC National Diploma/Extended Diploma in Business

• BTEC National Diploma/Extended Diploma in Enterprise and Entrepreneurship

{Publicist}:

Publicists create the 'buzz' that surrounds the release of a film.

In other words, they advertise the release of the film and encourages audiences to check it out for themselves. They get the critics talking and they are also responsible for getting media coverage of the film through having good relationships with journalists, film writers and critics.

Furthermore, they create press packs which usually include the film's synopsis, production notes, cast and crew credits and biographies, stills and the electronic press kit (EPK).

https://www.screenskills.com/careers/job-profiles/film-and-tv-drama/sales-and-distribution/publicist/

{Requirements}:

• Marketing (Level 3, Northern Ireland)

• Social Media and Digital Marketing (Level 3, Northern Ireland)

• Social Media and Digital Marketing (Level 3, 4, Wales)

• Marketing (Level 2, 3, Wales)

• Advertising and Marketing Communications (Level 4, Wales)

{Other requirements}:

• OCR Technical Diploma/Extended Diploma in Business

• BTEC National Diploma/Extended Diploma in Business

• BTEC National Diploma/Extended Diploma in Enterprise and Entrepreneurship

• If you want to go straight into a job or apprenticeship, the following Level 3 vocational qualifications will equip you:

• AQA Foundation Technical Level Business: Marketing Communications

• AQA Technical Level Business: Marketing

• NCFE Diploma in Skills for Business: Sales and Marketing

• NCTJ Diploma in Journalism

{FILM PRODUCTION} ~ Thriller Film Poster Plan

{My first arranged plan}:

I created my plan on a PowerPoint.

{Hand-written plan}:

I needed to brain-storm my ideas, so I stuck sticky notes and paper around my wall to get more room.

{Writing down my plan}:

{AUDIO} ~ Foley Artists

What magic do the sound team create on the Foley stage?

In films, documentaries and any TV category we watch at home, there's always something that goes on behind the curtain. Whether it's SFX (sound effects), characters, effects included or any TV element that sets the stage. They all have meaning to what makes the film industry, who they are today. So let's hop over and talk about SFX, in other words, sound effects. Overall, in the film industry, every sound they create is magic and make belief. Throughout the years of the film industry, sound effects is what they add to their piece of work to make reality seem more realistic and more of 'first person'. For instance, you are previewing a person's piece of work and they include background effects to make us feel like we are actually there, and that is what makes the world, more lively and how we feel more relaxed to how we connect to it. On the other hand, sound is basically like telling a story. What sound makes us who we are as a person or object. Basically without sound, our world would just seem like an empty void of darkness.

Behind the screens of documentaries/film, they have a studio where they make sounds, and there will always be a person at the back who is very experienced, to record them. So how they create sounds, is that they use different types of material like for example, a bucket pouring out water, but in reality they would picture it as a waterfall, stepping on planks, so they can create that walking sound or any type of household objects you could think of that fits well into what people watch on the screen.

Here are some materials you could use to make your own Foley sounds:

Any household or outside resources, you could use to make your own Foley sounds, just as long as it fits in with the scene.

How does the team work together at Warner Bros?

At warner bros, they have the 3 people who are on set with the mixer and the 2 Foley artists. They go through a trial run to see which sound works best for that specific scene. However, they would have to use the right Foley sound to match up with the scene they are using it for. They have a streamer that goes across the screen and when it gets to the end, it tells them when the sound would start. Onto the mixer, they have a control room where that person listens to the Foley artists performing their sounds and they don't just look at what they are using, they want to know what it sounds like. So it's like working on using any sound element they use to create sounds just like in reality.

Supervising sound editor:

https://www.screenskills.com/careers/job-profiles/film-and-tv-drama/post-production/supervising-sound-editor/

Supervising sound editors can manage the team that looks after each part of the sound of a film. This includes those who are responsible for story-telling through sound, additional dialogue recording, sound effects, background sounds and Foley. Supervising sound editors attend a spotting session with the film director and other sound editors. The point at which the film director or executive producer has given the final approval for the picture edit, on larger budget films, they start to work before shooting begins.

Who they work with? What do they do?

The Director, Picture Editor and the Post-Production Supervisor ~ They are responsible for the smooth running of the whole of the post-production process. In other words, post production is the editing portion of the filmmaking or video production process. During this process, the post-production crew not only pieces together footage, but adds sound including: music, voiceovers, sound effects and visual effects.