MDA2900 - Production Workshop

Though I missed it and caught up with my classmates notes, we had a talk off Eddie, discussing what makes a good producer, and the skills involved in Producing films.

• Confident (but not overconfident)
• Organized (write things down, prioritize, research, find out what can go wrong, delegate  communicate, have backup plans, manage your time and ask questions)
• Good communicator (talking, networking, open, knows how to talk to many different people)
• Self-control 
• Patience
• Negotiations (know everybody and everything, and know how to convince people)
• Executional (with your ideas) 
• Leadership – you have to have a vision

Personally, I'm still not sure whether I would make a better producer or director. On the one had, I feel that I would love the creative control a director gets, yet on the other, I feel that I have many skills which would make me a good producer: I'm a good communicator and have dealt with many different people of different backgrounds in my life well, and also I'm patient and in group tasks good at organising others. 

I only did a small amount of producing last year, and feel that I got a bit overwhelmed by it, if I were to do it again, the tips I got from reading through what Eddie discussed at his talk have definitely helped me think about how I could better approach the task.