Major Project: Sunday League Producer Research

http://creativeskillset.org/job_roles/3850_post_production_supervisor

This website is about the post-production supervisor rather than a producer but after reading what they do I i will be doing these roles anyways, as this is low budget filmmaking a supervisor is not needed and not affordable plus the edit process won't take as long as the big budget Hollywood films.

The Supervisor works closely with the editor providing support and communication between the editor, producer and director - so rather than having the middle man of the supervisor as a team we will be communicating the process with each other and I will be providing the support and communication plus the budget for the sound design.

They also work through the whole post- production stage to the completion of the film. These people don't necessary have qualification but have worked in post-production for a while and have done various other jobs such as assistant editor so they know what its like and as editors prefer to edit most alone they have the supervisor to communicate so the editor doesn't have the producer hovering while they edit.

I found another website based on post-production supervisors which says very similar stuff to the one above too, as this role is similar to what the producer does on set I feel the two roles are similar and can relate its just a different title and a different size budget.
http://www.media-match.com/usa/media/jobtypes/post-production-supervisor-jobs-402753.php



This video is a producer of animation but in series so even though its similar to what I am currently doing it is more about the animation which doesn't have as much stress over the filming production period but he still talks about his paperwork of risk assessments and recording the sound and voice overs.
He talks about series animation is not as stressful as filming live actions as these are done on a schedule rushed into a number of days whereas animation is scheduled over a long period of years to create series.

A producer has complete control of the whole production form beginning to end and has final say as in the industry they are the one who hires the crew and cast and even finds the right director for the job.
In pre-production the producer brings all the key elements, cast and crew onto the production including location finding, equipment hire and scheduling.

During the production the producer is in charge of the day to day smooth running of the production, they have to have constant contact with the cast crew and mainly the director making sure the filming is moving and fixing any upcoming problems etc.

During post production the producer liaises with the director and the post production team, which in our case is just us 3 so communication in key.

this website says that it is rare to find just one producer who does all the 3 stages of the production and normally has a team for support as they don't always have knowledge of all areas of production.