Introduction to Producing

Catalog description

This course will introduce students to the role and multiple responsibilities of a producer on a film while helping students prepare for the production of their first project in the program, the B/W MOS exercise. In the professional world producers are responsible for ensuring that all legal, financial and safety requirements are met while helping fulfill the film’s creative purpose (art) and commercial potential (business). Producers are a director’s creative and business partner. In the NYU Grad Film program, as directors are legal owners of their films, they often fulfill certain producing responsibilities in partnership with their producers. Together, they are responsible for safety on their sets, fulfilling all legal and insurance requirements and forms, completing necessary production paperwork, creating budgets, shooting schedules and tracking costs. Directors raise the financing and make key creative decisions - script, cast, budget, locations, camera shots, costumes, hair and makeup, sound, music, editing. Directors and producers will discuss and agree in advance on how they can best support their partnership for each project.