May 2008

Mondays session this week was the final session with Line Producer Victoria and the session focused on the legal and contractual aspects of physical production. We looked at everything from actors contracts to location agreements and Victoria talked us through the roles of the different HOD's in ensuring everything is legalized and fully contracted! It all sounded like a nightmare and was a lot more of a complex operation than I had realised! However, it was great to have it all explained and I do feel that if I ever get to the stage of making a movie I will be much more knowledgeable about not only how to budget, schedule and manage the production, but also am much more aware of the other responsibilities of a line producer to ensure that the production is not only made but is made legally, safely and as cheap as possible!

On Tuesday we then moved on to the equally complicated world of Post-Production. This was the first of two sessions to be led by Post-Production Supervisor Helen De Winter. During this session Helen explained the role of a post-production supervisor in terms of supervising both the physical production and ensuring that all the legal and copyrights are fully sanctified. It was something I had not really considered before but the Post-Production Supervisor, who is not always used in UK independent film productions, is the mirror of a line producer in the post-production process. It was an energetic and fascinating session and Helen broight in a movie to show us which had been practically made in post-production after arriving at the post-house with 70% of the sound missing follwoing an on set dispute! It was incredible to then discuss what had been done in post and how this movie had been saved by the incredible technologies we now have. I am really looking forward to continuing this session next week as post-production is an area I feel thoroughly confused by but have quickly come to realise how important it is to understand as an independent producer.

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Roger Goldsmith

(Story To Screen In Eight Weeks) felt this course gave him the confidence he needed to take the films he writes into production. His graduation film has been selected for screening on two high profile websites and was well received at a recent screening in Portsmouth. He is now in pre-production for a short film he has written, to be directed by award-winning feature director Owen Carey Jones.