Role of the Writer; Lord Of The Rings - Unit 24.1

Commissioning editors (Film and TV): 

They go out and look for talent, the scout basically. They want to find the best writers around. They look at the treatments to see if they are as good as they can be. They just sort stuff out and make sure that everything is up to date and that everything is done that should be done.

Producers:

They do all the hard work; making sure that the Budget is all ok, making sure that its all on time. They NEED to be a responsible person, They need to Produce the film, its the main role of what they do.

Directors:

They have control over everything that happens to the film. They will be out on set telling the actors where to sand and what to do, they are one of the main people on a film set.

Script editors:

Its in the name really, they edit the script to make sure it works and makes sence otherwise the films a bust.

Agents (Film and TV)

Represents the actors and they go out and look in detail movies and TV shows that they can star in. The agent is the one making sure that the actor has a role in the film.

Writers

A Writer is the one that has to make up all the ideas to go into the story, nothing would happen without the writer because they are the one that has to come up with the ideas to the story. The writer will always be on set, because sometimes there could be something that want to change, they're kind of a writer and editor all in one. The things that they write have to make sense because the writers like to readers to picture in there head the events that they're reading and make a little movie in their minds. if it doesn't make sense then its not written properly. A writer is a person who uses written words in various styles and techniques to communicate ideas. Writers can write things in a fictional or non-fictional way it doesn't matter as long as it makes sense. No education is required to become a professional screenwriter, just good storytelling abilities and imagination. All writers need to start off with a rough idea as to want they want to have, then that idea gets expanded by talking to directors and actors to make movies.

 The role of the writer

  There were a few changes in that had to be made in the book for it to work on screen such as making larger roles for the female characters in the film. For an example; Arwen's role in the book is only a short poem. However, in the film she has one of the major roles. Back in the days of The Lord of the Rings being written, the  writer; J. R. R. Tolkien, was a male and back in those days things were very sexist so the women roles weren't big.