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ROLES AND RESPONSIBILITIES OF FILMMAKING
Before beginning the process of filmmaking, it is important to understand the
collaborative nature of the process and the many roles that contribute to create
the end product. Ee explore these roles and the responsibilities
that each role has. Some of these are different if you decide to make a nonfictional or documentary film. It does not matter whether each role is completed by a separate person or multiple roles are completed by the one person; at the end of the day, for a successful production to take place, each role needs to be filled.
While not strictly about the process of filmmaking, Christopher Nolan’s 2010 film
Inception was about planting the seed of an idea in a person’s mind; in the filmmaking process, this initial idea and its development are essential to a successful production. You need to ensure that what you have in mind has been thought
through and that you have certain ideas in place.
One way of achieving this is to collect a page images that relate in some way to what it is you want to create. For instance, it may be a page filled with the colours that you are hoping to create, or it may be a page of shots that you are looking to replicate, or it may just be all the things that you are interested in at the moment and that you hope to draw on in some way.
Brainstorming
Brainstorming is another great way to generate ideas. Leading on from the
inception stage, now it is time to extend those ideas further.
