My Role for the Master Shot in Our Second Project

In our second assignment for Production 201, we are doing a narrative film following a set script. Our director for this project has decided to set the script to the science fiction scenario of a test that distinguishes cyborgs from true humans, as in Ridley Scott's Blade Runner (1982). We will have two separate settings. One of the interviewee and interviewer at a table in a large low-key lit sparsely furnished room. The other will have one or two clinical individuals in a small dark room watching the interaction over a monitor. This time around, I have been assigned the role of producer. This means my contribution to setting up our Master Shot is less artistic and more organizational. I will likely work with the director to work out the shot list, I will book a room, coordinate our actors, set up our scheduling and timetables, bookkeep, manage our budget, check out equipment and be on call and as present as possible. I will check in with other team members to make sure they are all proceeding on schedule with their individual responsibilities and roles and I will communicate with the director on a regular basis. It’s not all hands-off-the-art for me though. In group meetings (which I help coordinate) I contribute my artistic ideas as we brainstorm and I have offered to illustrate a few panels of the storyboard according to the director’s vision, as proves necessary. Luckily for me, our director has numerous connections with a local theater group, so our film should have no lack of actors, props, lighting gels, or costumes.