I was excited to take on the role because I enjoy being able to have an overview and control on projects as I'm somewhat a perfectionist and like to make sure that everything is going according to plans.
As one of a two member Production Manager team, in the weeks running up to our final filming of the music video we were expected to keep a grip on the overall organisation in all areas of production including locations, props, costumes, music and dance teams. This meant ensuring everybody was sure of what they were doing at all times, helping out anybody that wasn't and creating organised plans for the whole team to stick to in their roles. In each session that the class were together as a team, Gemma and I would speak to each individual group to find out what they had achieved, what they still hadn't achieved and what they were striving to achieve by the end of that session - we noted down what had been done, what each group's goals were and checked these at the end of the session. If goals weren't achieved we set up provisions to ensure they were by the next session and chased these issues up during our free time using e-mails to gain perspective on how groups had progressed towards their goals during time in between lessons. Below are two examples of emails I sent to my classmates regarding the production.
During our time as production managers we also produced extended storyboards and in-depth shooting schedules to ensure everybody knew which shots they'd be directing, in which location and at what time in accordance with the storyboard (part one of the shooting schedule is attached below)...
I found that the role is highly important in a production as they are a general overview of all areas and provide full organisation to the team as well as support during planning stages, filming and post production. Being a production manager was a lot of work (including in free time) but I enjoyed the responsibility and having a vision which I could see coming together as all teams put in the effort to make sure the finished product was our very best. Although such high control and responsibility is a daunting prospect, the workload was manageable with high organisational skills gained during the project and ended with a sense of pride when we saw the project coming to life with the hard work of the whole team.
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