For this project, we were asked to take on the role of the producer and/or line producer for a Level 3 Fiction Project. Basically, we would be involved in the decision making, problem solving and communicating with the Level 3 students, who pitched their film ideas to us and we had to select which one of those would be feasible for us. Originally, I was paired with Lewis when we were going through the pitches, but we were given one that we hadn’t chosen as one of the pitches we wanted to go with, nor did we have any background research on. So we agreed to go into separate groups which had been given the pitches that we originally wanted to do. I joined a group who were going to work on a film called ‘We Are The Blind’, whereas I was given the role on line producer.
At first, the project seemed to be going pretty well. We were easily able to communicate with the film’s director over any issues that we had and we were able to easily able to rectify them. We held regular meetings to discuss anything that needed to be changed or anything we needed to emphasise. We sorted out parts in the script that needed amending, such as swearing and such. However, whilst we were sorting out the bits that we needed, there was a problem with the director’s organisation of the filming, and it had a knock-on effect on how we were able to try to sort things out on our side. We weren’t able to communicate with the director as well as we used to, partly to to that he wasn’t available a lot of the time, so it made us a bit uncertain about his commitment to the project.
As a result of these ongoing issues, we were unable to get any filming done, or at least take part in any filming from then on. In my opinion, this was a tremendous shame, considering that we had put a lot of hard work into trying to arrange for the scheduling of the film. I, as well as Jordan and Qasim, had sorted out a lot of the paperwork that was needed, such as the script, the recce, the schedules etc., so it was a huge disappointment for us that all our hard work was made for nothing in the end. I feel that a large part of this project not going as well as we’d hoped was down to the film’s director. We felt that he didn’t commit 100% to the project and as such, we all fell behind. If we were to improve anything to this project, my best suggestion would be to have worked with another director on the project, and with that, we would probably be better organised, we would have better communication, and make sure that the director is fully committed to the task in hand. This way, we would’ve been able to present a proper film to our tutors rather than present nothing but just paperwork.
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