Commissioning

Job roles within commissioning:
  • Commissioning editors 
  •   senior employee of broadcast
  •   responsible for selecting programme ideas
  •                            allocating funds
  •   have creative input and oversee writing process through production
  • Producers
  • oversees all aspects of the production
  • Director
  • take ideas and the script and pulls it all together
  • provide the overall creative vision from which the DoP, technicians and editors work from
  • intercept the script how they see it working (writer has little to no control over this)
  • Script editors
  • provides a critical overview of scriptwriting process
  • liaises between commissioning editor, writer and producer
  • use analysis skills to identify problems, but don't create solutions
  • help to strengthen and develop screenplays
  • Agents
  • find work for clients
  • organise contracts
  • negotiate appropriate deals
  • build relationship with industry decision-makers
  • support and guide writers' careers
  • Writers
  • responsable for research
  • develops engaging narrative and emotional impact
  • writes the screenplay to meet brief in appropriate format
  • avast majority are freelance, means they write themselves
  • some write in teams
  • Working as a writer - professional presentation, agent representations, communication, time     management, collaboration, handing over control
Commissioning bodies:
  • Corporations
  • almost all pitching of ideas for big corporations (Fox) goes through established relationships in US
  • big UK corporations like BBC, ITV commission scripts and budgets for tv shows
  • Independent production companies
  • hundreds
  • strike deals with other larger companies
  • Organisations
  • e.gs BBC Writers Room, Good in a Room, BFI Film Academy
  • Competitions
  • UK FilmFreeway, all winners since 2013 went into at least pre-production



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