Instructions:
This week we took a critical look at the production process and the key roles involved in what constitutes the American film industry. Understanding the labor involved is an essential component of understanding the industry as a whole. Please following prompts to discuss in your post:
1. Let’s Role Play! Choose a persona for yourself working in the film industry and respond to the following prompts:
- Are you a producer, actor, manager, agent, lawyer, studio executive, intern, skilled technical worker, publicist….?
- What is your role in the entire film production process?
- Where do you work? What is your main task?
- With whom do you primarily work with and for what purposes?
- What other roles are important to your work?
- What are your goals, ambitions and desires? What do you want the most? How are you going to achieve your dream?
- What risks do you face?
- How do you navigate conflicts of interest and use the legal structure to your advantage?
- If you could change one thing about the industry’s structure, what would it be and why?
When you respond to your colleagues in the discussion post, respond from the position of the role you have chosen. For example if you chose to be a manager and you are responding to an agent, how might that frame your response and what would you say to them about their outlook on the industry?
2. Consider the script deliberation scene in the Project Greenlight episode (starting at 16:30) and respond to the following prompts considering the texts from this week:
- Who is present in this scene and what roles are represented?
- Where do you think the most power is located in this group of men? Why?
- Who feels entitled to what?
- If you were in the room and had a say, what script would you have chosen and why?
- What do you think about this as a model for choosing what films get made and distributed?
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