Thursday, 1 October 2015

TASK 7 Role Allocation & Casting


Role Allocation and Casting

Although everyone in the group will take an active part in filming and editing the music video, certain roles are more prominent. The main roles we will take on include being the director, the producer, camera operator and editor. 

Director: Katie

The Director's role is the person who guides the technical crew and actors into fulfilling their visions of what the production should look like, often their visualization of scripts given to them by the screenwriters.

Producer: Kirst

The Producer's role is to supervise the overall filming of the shots themselves.The role of producer's are normally sub categorised further into line producer (who manages the films budget and maintains a strict schedule in terms of filming) or executive producer (who oversees the filming in regards to financing).

Camera Operator: Oli

The Camera Operator is responsible for the maintenance of the camera during filming. They make sure the camera is ready in place for filming and physically operate the camera when the time comes to film a shot/scene.

Editor:  Oli&Katie

Film Editors are responsible for editing the footage taken into a logical sequence to create a music video in this instance. They need to manipulate the footage by adding effects, cutting pieces of the footage and making sure the song and footage work together nicely.

Print Artefacts: Kirst

Casting
The music video focusses on the singer (Kate) and her friend the Skeleton. We needed one main actress to play Kate,the skeleton would be a prop, another person to play the boyfriend at the end and an extra person to play the role of the owner of the house.

Kate: The singer featured in the music video is Kate (Kate Nash). Played by Lydia.

Skeleton: The skeleton will be played by a fake skeleton prop.

Boyfriend:The boyfriend is only featured near the end. Played by Oli

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