Definition: Producer (from Yahoo!)
from Yahoo: the Producers...
Current mood: busy
Perhaps no title in the film world is as little understood as "producer" ("best boy" notwithstanding). In fact, the industry is replete with jokes about the producer's actual job function:
How many producers does it take to change a light bulb?
Answer: One production assistant.
That one kills over at Warner's.
The Producers Guild of America holds a different opinion. Here are abridged PGA definitions, as applied to the film industry:
Producer - initiates and supervises either on his own authority or an employer's all aspects of the production process, including creative, financial, technological, and administrative
Executive Producer - supervises either on his own authority or an employer's one or more producers on single or multiple productions
Associate Producer - performs one or more producer functions under the supervision of a producer
Despite sometimes having to answer to the executive producer, the producer is usually the project's ultimate authority, hiring the director, writer, and talent, and supervising logistics and other non-creative issues.
Movie Geek Central has a different take, positing: "The producer credit has long been a political plum...for otherwise unclassifiable contributions...or sometimes just a gift." Meaning anyone (like the film's star) can be credited with the title. Even more nebulous is the job of associate producer, sometimes used as a "handout, given simply to please underlings or financiers." Are you a prized assistant who holds Bruce Willis's toupee between scenes? You may qualify. PGA has been trying, with varying success, to combat such "credit proliferation." Let's hope they succeed.
Currently reading:
Theatrical Design and Production: An Introduction to Scene Design and Construction, Lighting, Sound, Costume, and Makeup
By J. Michael Gillette
Release date: By 19 November, 1999
Current mood: busy
Perhaps no title in the film world is as little understood as "producer" ("best boy" notwithstanding). In fact, the industry is replete with jokes about the producer's actual job function:
How many producers does it take to change a light bulb?
Answer: One production assistant.
That one kills over at Warner's.
The Producers Guild of America holds a different opinion. Here are abridged PGA definitions, as applied to the film industry:
Producer - initiates and supervises either on his own authority or an employer's all aspects of the production process, including creative, financial, technological, and administrative
Executive Producer - supervises either on his own authority or an employer's one or more producers on single or multiple productions
Associate Producer - performs one or more producer functions under the supervision of a producer
Despite sometimes having to answer to the executive producer, the producer is usually the project's ultimate authority, hiring the director, writer, and talent, and supervising logistics and other non-creative issues.
Movie Geek Central has a different take, positing: "The producer credit has long been a political plum...for otherwise unclassifiable contributions...or sometimes just a gift." Meaning anyone (like the film's star) can be credited with the title. Even more nebulous is the job of associate producer, sometimes used as a "handout, given simply to please underlings or financiers." Are you a prized assistant who holds Bruce Willis's toupee between scenes? You may qualify. PGA has been trying, with varying success, to combat such "credit proliferation." Let's hope they succeed.
Currently reading:
Theatrical Design and Production: An Introduction to Scene Design and Construction, Lighting, Sound, Costume, and Makeup
By J. Michael Gillette
Release date: By 19 November, 1999
posted by Alessandra | 1:36 PM
0 Comments:
Post a Comment
<< Home