Our Personal View on Production Roles

• Producer- Manages the overall production, decides and helps oversee budget and all decisions, as well as organising rehearsals and the timetable.
• Musical Director- Conducts and ensures musical decisions (such as cuts to the score) are made and also consults with the director and choreographer on these decisions so they can block their work around this.  
• Assistant MD- Work beneath the md and do photocopying of music, and arrange and run rehearsals and help consult on any cuts. They also talk to the sound team on the required set up for the performance.
• Director- Blocks the actors and works on their characterisation.
• Tech manager- Supervises the get out and get in and ensures any technical errors are fixed, as wells as managing all the crew.
• Production Manager- Ensures the venue is sufficiently ready for the production and the running of it (water and electricity are fine), as well as making sure the site/venue is safe to use.
• Choreographer- Creates the routines for the performers, they need to consult with the director to coordinate on blocking and how the expression of the piece reflects the mood/character.
• DSM- Gathers cues for the visuals, lighting and sound by consulting their managers, they attend every rehearsal and make marks of the blocking and choreography. They also ensure the health and safety of backstage and the cueing and running of the show both crew and cast.
• ASM- Can be a range of disciplines from props manager, mic changing to shifting the set during the performance, they either work with the DSM moving set or they work for departments such as sound for changing the mics.
• Sound-  Operate the desk during the show, as well as controlling the radio mics and sound effects, they are in charge of ensuring the equipment is rigged in the get in and they order what they need. They also design and programme this part of the show with consultation with the director and md.
• Lighting- Operate the desk during the show, as well as controlling the floor lights and house lights. they are in charge of ensuring the equipment is rigged in the get in and they order what they need. They also design and programme this part of the show with consultation with the director.
• Visuals- They design the visuals and operate them during the performance, they need to ensure they hire the correct equipment and rig it correctly.
• Marketing and Publicity- Produce all marketing material such as posters and screensavers, as well as merchandise such as the programme and magnets, regular consultation with the producer is needed to ensure the consistency and correct information on the programme and poster.
• Costume- Design each character (talking to the director about how they want to reflect the character), they need to source/create the costumes, whilst also organising it for the cast, doing fittings and making sure quick changes are dealt with.
• Makeup- Design each character/group(talking to the director about how they want to reflect the character), they need to source the makeup, whilst also organising how long it will take to put on the cast, doing trials.
• Wigs/hair-Design each character (talking to the director about how they want to reflect the character), they need to source/create the hair/wig and products, whilst also organising it for the cast, doing fittings and making sure quick changes are dealt with.

Unit 65 Pratical- Performance

For the first performance I operated the static camera. I moved the camera
from side to side and also I used the zoom to create some dynamic
camera shots in and out.

For my range of roles I used a roaming camera, here I was cable feeding to
Alisha.

Here I operated the Chamsys graphics on the playback, this also shows
the preview screen for the vision mixer which I used too.

Our assignment was to do the visuals and recordings for Rowan and Tom's performance.