Commissions Unit - Job Roles

In terms of roles, the commission is a two-man team; Lex Wilkinson, another member on the course and myself. Based on previous experience working with Lex during workshops and filming each other’s shorts, passion and understanding creative abilities are present. Instead of opting for a one-man team, the pressure is split over two people, which helps out so much when juggling other units too.

The roles for each of us are as follows –

Andrew 

·        Producer

Working with Lex took the focus for me off of camerawork and directing, which gave me the opportunity to try something out that I couldn’t before, which was producing. Projects before I haven’t really been organised so producing will give me the edge in the third year

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·         Sound Op

Relating back to the first role, the focus for me has come off camerawork and directing. The piece agreed will essentially be composed of interviews and nice cutaways, so I can prioritise the sound aspect without the constraint on my behalf of worrying about the video

·         Co-Editor

As we are a two man team, it would be unfair in my opinion if the sole editing was left to one person. Communication is great between myself and Lex so we have a comfortability factor about opinion and styles of filming for example. I could point out something in the edit that doesn’t look right and vice versa. Editing gives us both a chance to own the product in question and both add our unique parts to make the commission that much better.

Lex

·         Director

Lex has always been fond of directing and we agreed to work on the project with the intention of Lex being the director. I have confidence in Lex as have seen his portfolio as he has progressed on the course just like myself.

·         Script writer

Naturally, the director writes the script as he/she is implementing their creative vision to a product. O course it doesn’t have to be this way, but it feels like the best course of action in this scenario.

·         Camera Op

Over the last year, Lex has been stockpiling camera equipment such as lenses and has now a vested knowledge in camera equipment. As I am focussing on sound and its only a two man shoot, it is logical for Lex to be on camera for this shoot.

·         Co – Editor

Same applies from my justification. Co-editing in this case helps out as you can spot something that can be overlooked if a lot of hours have been clocked in to the edit.