Casting jobs and Screen Shots

Production Manager

• The Production Manager supervises the physical aspects of the production (not the creative aspects) including personnel, technology, budget, and scheduling. It is the production manager's responsibility to make sure the filming stays on schedule and within its budget. The PM also helps manage the day-to-day budget by managing operating costs such as salaries, production costs, and everyday equipment rental costs. The PM often works under the supervision of a line producer and directly supervises the Production Coordinator.

• Director
The Director is responsible for overseeing the creative aspects of a film, including controlling the content and flow of the film's plot, directing the performances of actors, organizing and selecting the locations in which the film will be shot, and managing technical details such as the positioning of cameras, the use of lighting, and the timing and content of the film's soundtrack. Though the director wields a great deal of power, he or she is ultimately subordinate to the film's producer or producers. Some directors, especially more established ones, take on many of the roles of a producer, and the distinction between the two roles is sometimes blurred.

• Location Manager
The location manager assists the Director and the Production designer in finding, securing, and coordinating filming locations. Location is often considered to be a separate department.

• Publicist
The publicist handles the publicity of a film. They promote the film by issuing press releases and overseeing advertisements.

• Set Decorator
The set decorator is in charge of the decorating of a film set, which includes the furnishings and all the other objects that will be seen in the film. He or she works closely with the production designer and coordinates with the art director. In recognition of the set decorator's importance, the Academy Award for Art Direction is given jointly to both the production designer and the set decorator.

• Production sound mixer
The production sound mixer is head of sound department on the set, responsible for recording all sound on a set. This requires choice and deployment of microphones, choice of recording media, and mixing of audio signals in real time.

• Boom operator
The boom operator is an assistant to production sound mixer, responsible for microphone placement and movement during a take. The boom operator uses a boom, a special piece of equipment that allows precise control of the microphone at a much greater distance away from the actors. In France, the boom operator is known as the perchman.

movie collage

I have the published the picture collage from the movie Se7en because I thought that is very relevant to what I have been talking about. It gives you a basic idea of what could happen in the movie and what the movie may be about just by looking at the picture and I think it is also very creative in the way each picture is layered out individually to create a story and also a sense I mystery within the movie Se7en.

Trailers

Movie trailers are often a way to show the audience wants to come from the actual film it self and films are often judged on this also and these are the reasons why trailers are so important to a movie. A trailer has to firstly create a sense of interest, this means it has to make the audience interested enough in the movie to spend money to watch it in a cinema or to by the DVD. it is important for a trailer to show the public the most important, fun, exiting, and best bits of the movie so the audience will become exited about seeing the movie itself. trailers are also to advertise the main actors also because if the audience knows that and actor for example Ven Diesel or Bradd Pit is in it i will drive the audience to see it because they want to see their favorite actor perform once again.

understanding the difference between a trailer and an opening sequence.

In this post I will be talking about the differences between an opening sequence and a trailer. The movie that I will be talking about is Se7en. opening sequences and movie trailers could be per-trade as the same thing at first glass but they are completely different ways of advertising a movie to the audience.

Opening sequences are very important to a movie because it will be the first thing the audience sees before they watch the movie on DVD or in a cinema or television suggesting that it is a crucial part of any movie. An opening sequence has to be relevant to the movie for example it has to give the viewers information but also at the same time not give to much away as the audience is yet to see the movie. It is important for the opening sequence to make the audience wonder what is to come next in the movie for example give them clues that will come in the movie and also they have to make sure that the sub titles and the music is relevant to the movie it self suggesting if the movie is a horror it will be important that the music is quite scary and the sub titles would be in certain colors like red and black.

People can often tell from an opening sequence wether a film will live up to expectations or not.

Match on action

Match on action a continuity editing technique. A match-on-action is when an edit takes place in the middle of an action. For example, shot one might show a person sitting down while shot two shows them standing up. The cut occurs during the movement from sitting to standing. I thought in my group we used match on action quite effectively, you can clearly see in the first few seconds of the scene we incorporated match on action. We had a bit of trouble with editing or clip so the match on action technique was perfect but I think we got there in the end with a few adjustments. I think that our group worked really hard in making sure that the audience saw that match on action was used correctly. Filmmakers use match on action to connect two different views of the same action at the same moment in the movement.


Shot reverse Shot

Shot reverse shot or also known, as shot/counter shot is a film technique wherein one character is shown looking at another character often off-screen, and then the other character is shown looking "back" at the first character. I think that we found it quite easy to apply shot reverse shot to our clip because it is in my opinion one of the more easy shots in the filming building. We also found it quite easy to edit or shot reverse shots also so I quite enjoyed this part of our filming because it did not cause us as much problems as the other shots. Film makers use shot reverse shot so that the audience persieves one continuous action.


Eyeline match

Eyeline match is when shots are matched by the linkage from the gaze of one character towards another character. If character A looks down to see character B, character B will look up to see character A. one again our group had a bit of trouble with this filming technique because of the way we filmed it and decided to edit it and also because of continuity. Eventually we found a way to make it work and in the end it looked quite good. Filmmakers use eye line match so that the audience understand and know where the characters are facing and looking

180 Degree

The 180° Degree rule is a basic guideline in film making that states that two characters or other elements in the same scene should always have the same left/right relationship to each other. To ensure that we did not pass that invisible line we had to check every shot because the 180 degree rule is so important but we succesfully achieved this. We just had to ensure that the camara was at the side all the time no matter what the angle. Filmmakers use the 180 degree because it is important for the audience to understand what side each acter is on weather the left or right and if you brake this imagenery line it will seem like they are oon the same side.


w.w.w

I think that we cut the scenes really well and also the use of the camera and the techniques using the equipment was really good.
I also thought that some of the techniques for example match on action and eyeline match went very well.I am personally getting better at understanding the separate use of techniques needed to be a good filmmaker and to make good films. I was more vocal than I normally was and also I got on with my group really well as everyone was aloud to give there individual input and this helped us to make and even better clip as we all enjoyed it.


E.B.I

We need to improve on the handling of the camera because in one part of the clip the camera was shaking noticeably and also we need to make less mistakes within the filming of clips or movies so it cuts down on waste of time.