FIL 2423 Week 2

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FIL 2423 Week 2
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Homework PollWhich best describes your feelings
about last weeks homework reading?

• Accessible
• Difficult
• We had homework last week?

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Homework PollWhich best describes your feelings
about last weeks homework reading?

• Interesting
• Dull
• No, seriously. What were we supposed to be
  reading, anyway?

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Homework PollWhich best describes your feelings
about last weeks homework reading?

• Informative
• Of no value
• So what, is there like a required book in this
  class or something?

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Homework PollHelp out your classmates. What was
the assigned reading?

• From Concept to Screen, Ch.1
• From Concept to Screen, Ch. 2
• From Concept to Screen, Chs.1 2

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Homework PollAnd what did you read about?

• The Producer and Options Rights
• The Producer and Pitching
• Options Rights and Pitching
• Pitching and Film Financing

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The Producer

• Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain.

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According to the text, who is the Producer?

• The person who is most responsible for guiding
  the filmmaking process from start to finish.
• The person who is in charge of money issues but
  does not have much of a creative hand.
• The creepy guy hitting on the female PAs.

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Who is the Producer?

• The person most responsible for guiding the
  filmmaking process from start to finish.
• The central intelligence of a film project.
• Conceives or selects the idea.
• Sells to a studio or arranges financing.
• Selects writer and director.
• Guides the creation of the script and creative
  development.

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How does the PGA describe the Producers
responsibilities?

• ERRORERRORERRORERRORERROR
• TOO MANY RESPONSIBILITIES TO LIST ON ONE
  SLIDE!!!!!!!!!!!!
• ERRORERRORERRORERRORERROR

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How about a co-executive associate line producer
credit?

• There are many kinds of producers in film
  production.
• Not all producers are created equal.
• Some are honorary titles.
• Some are tied to financing.
• Some are real working, guiding forces in the
  nuts-and-bolts process of filmmaking.

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Kinds of ProducersStrictly speaking, not all
of the following can be appropriately described
as producers.

• Above-the-Line (creative)

• Below-the-Line (technical)

• Executive Producer
• Producer
• Associate Producer
• Co-Producer

• Line Producer
• Unit Production Manager
• Development Producers / Executives

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Unit Production Manager is a DGA Position

• Though UPM and Line Producer titles are often
  interchangable, only the UPM is in the Directors
  Guild.
• The UPM is not technically a producer, so Line
  Producer is a better credit for the same job.
• Sometimes a big film will have both a UPM and a
  Line Producer.

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The Line Producer is a DGA position.

• True
• False

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The Producer sees the project through to the end.

• (If he/she is lucky, there might be a Best
  Picture Oscar in it)

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When I grow up, I want to produce!

• Avoid Set PA jobs get in the office at all
  costs!
• Producers Assistant is the best possible gig.
• Learn to love networking.
• Follow industry news and trends.
• Join clubs and associations. Subscribe to blogs
  and online magazines. Stay in the loop.
• Get a smart phone. Get a laptop.
• Be organized, punctual, and quick with
  information.
• Move to LA or NY.

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To review, for the purposes of the final project
. . .

• The Producer is the leader of the group project.
  While the project is collaborative, all logistic
  decisions ultimately fall with the Producer.
• Specifically, the Producer is responsible to
  coordinate and oversee the other members
  responsibilities, to manage the pre-production
  schedule, organize and attend group meetings, and
  sign off on all scheduling and budgetary
  decisions made during production.
• The Producer is also responsible for overseeing
  the Production Binder worth 25 of the whole
  groups final grade.