TRANSITION; JOB ROLE RESEARCH

For the Transitions unit; my role is a producer. Producers play an integral role in the tv and film industry and they are the ones who would mainly be seeing a project through from the start to the finish. They are the people who work closely with every department on a shoot, for example the director, the editor and the production staff. Roles that a producer usually takes on

- Raise money needed to fund a shoot
- Come up with the content, storylines etc, but hire a writer to follow through with the physical script
- Either create budgeting and scheduling documents (on bigger shoots there would be a production assistant to do these tasks but a producer would be working closely with them)
- Ensure that all the relevant insurances are in place for shoots
- Keep in close contact with the director to ensure everything is going as it should

Being a producer is closely associated with managerial titles; its a lot about keeping organised and knowing whats going on within each team/department at all times. Producers can spend a lot of time in an office, taking up the above organisational, more administrative tasks.

Within the 21st century, a new role within the TV industry has appeared; knowns as a 'show-runner'. this is a role that would have complete and utter control of a production, its a mixture of a writer and producer job role. This takes the creative role of a writer paired with the more managerial job of a producer and puts them together. A lot of shows, particularly sic-fi such as Doctor Who, have adopted these roles, with one person taking control of the a series, deciding what content shall go into it, and then writing a good amount of the episodes that go into it. This is something that really interest me because whilst i resonate well with because of the roles that come with it, however writing is also something that really interests me.

Looking at some research, the term 'Showrunner' is the term given normally to one of the executive producers of a programme. The main job is to 'maintain the integrity of the overall canon of the series'. A showrunner wouldn't write every episode but would have creative control of most of the narrative aspects that occur within a series.