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Post by inlovewithcrow on Mar 8, 2010 15:08:34 GMT -5
And why, when I was a kid, was there one producer for a TV show or film and now there half a dozen?
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Post by quinnmartin on Mar 8, 2010 17:24:22 GMT -5
From what I know, the job duties of a "producer" can vary a lot. They may just have been involved in securing part of the budget, or they may own the rights to the original story, or they may be in charge of the entire project.
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Post by Mitchell on Mar 20, 2010 21:51:38 GMT -5
Generally, a producer has overall responsibility for the project from start to finish. He or she hires (or hires the people that hire) the cast, director, etc., and is also responsible for how it is released to the media.
In recent practice, though, people that invest a large amount of money into the project are given a producer, or an executive producer, credit as a way of thank-you or ego stroking.
I would estimate that since TV shows are now so much more expensive to produce, it requires more investors and therefore results in more of those vanity Producer credits.
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Post by hsauertieg on Jun 10, 2010 15:01:43 GMT -5
Generally, a producer has overall responsibility for the project from start to finish. He or she hires (or hires the people that hire) the cast, director, etc., and is also responsible for how it is released to the media. And how it is released to the public! Distribution is critical to making the investment pay off for everyone involved. Producers sometimes do nothing more than pay for the project, and sometimes they oversee everything and insist on changes or tell the director what to do. Often when a film is jumbled or obviously unfocused it's because the director is trying to make one kind of movie and the producer is requiring other content to bring the film up or down to a certain level. "We need more topless girls. We need a car chase here, here and here. This scene has to be really gory." Etc. Sometimes the poster for the film is created before the film is! Roger Corman is a good example of a Movie Producer. He has a formula and hires people to make a film that he can sell to previous buyers who profited from his earlier films. "This is Roger Corman, and we have Sleepaway Camp 10 in production. Interested?"
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Post by citizensmurf on Jun 20, 2010 21:11:56 GMT -5
www.filmmakers.com/stories/Producer.htmRead and learn. I once read a review of a movie that Wes Craven had produced, and the writer said not to blame Wes for the movie's poor quality as "he is only the producer". What an idiot.
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Post by inlovewithcrow on Jun 28, 2010 10:14:35 GMT -5
thanks for the link
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Post by brandonakaxerxes on Jul 21, 2010 14:04:19 GMT -5
I only read some of that, but I didn't see anything about producers feeling the need to destroy a director's vision, and just hack the film up, and then blame the director if it fails.
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