Week 8 EOC: The producer's most important role

The producer’s most important role in a film is the paperwork. The producer has to make sure that everything is clear and everything is ok with contracts, release forms, and everything else paper wise. The film producer is the one who looks over everything and makes sure that everything is going up to scale and that everything is on the up and up, sort of like government “big brother is watching you”. The producer oversees the project, not from a creative perspective, but from a time/worker management point of view. A producer will have jobs like: setting up schedules, making sure everyone shows up on time, making sure the production runs smoothly and efficiently. Now a film producer’s job can vary from production to production, because what a producer does on a low budget film may very well be different from what a producer does on a multi-million dollar feature film. A producer on a low budget may be the one doing everything from taking care of all the paper work and also delegating what people do on the set, basically telling everybody what to do. To where as what a producer on a multi-million dollar feature film will handle JUST the paper work and may not even set foot a set. So it basically all depends on what type of movie set that the producer is working on. But the sole purpose of the movie producer is to overlook everything on a movie set and make sure that everyone is doing their job and the paper work is just another part of it.