Job Description
As a Producer, your role is to work on a film from the script until the release of the film. You work on planning and coordinating the processes of a film, including hiring crew members, setting a time-schedule for the production and most importantly, you plan and manage the financial part of the film (e.g. calculating the budget and securing the necessary funds).
You supervise the crew and the work that has been done. Your goal is to ensure that the film will be produced successfully and will have good marketing.
- Budgeting, finding the funds and supervising how the money is spent in the production
- Planning the film processes and schedules
- Coordinating the film departments’ needs, physical production and their necessity of any kind of access and supplies
- Managing logistics and business operations (invoices, contracts etc.)
- Sometimes supervising the screenplay or offering advices on the creative aspects of the film
- leadership/management skills
- Team player
- time management
- Communication skills
- Leadership
- Flexibility
- Managing various aspects that are involved in the production of a film
- Basic film terminology
Director, DOP, UPM, Actors, Marketing officers, Heads of all film departments
Set up Situation
You’ve been working as UPM for a couple of years for a famous film studio. A prominent colleague producer recently turned 50 and surprised everyone by declaring he is happily retiring from the film industry on a tropical island with his lover. Now the studio offers to test you as a full-blooded producer in a new upcoming film.