Basic Introduction to Production roles

Executive producer:

Purpose and role is to manage and run the whole production. Mainly the financial controller and the final decision in the production workflow. Executive also takes charge of the sales and marketing of the production, raising funds and hire the whole team to execute the script.

Producer:

The producer is on the ground on day-to-day basics of the production. In some countries they call them production runner, producer plan all the production schedules and manage the petty cash for the daily expenses.

Music director:

The composer, the master in producing the right sound and music for the film. A film is 50% sound, having a music director from the start elevate the production standards and helps the director to direct the mood of the piece.

Scriptwriter:

The idea guy in the team, a good scriptwriter is well soughed in a production company, because a well-written script can help save time, money and manpower during the production. A strong story plot and production content captivate the audiences and bring the audience to the destination of the film.

Director:

Probably the one role most people are familiar with, the director’s role is to communicate with the artists, the production team, to execute a film, which brings out what the scriptwriter is trying to communicate. Also known as a conductor in the whole film, he envisions and synchronizes the whole team to execute the perfect film.

n  Basic Introduction to 5 fold ministry

How did you come up with this idea to place 5 folds ministry into a production team?

How it all came together one day? Hmm, I was filming cooking with love production and was at episode 6 when I went to Malaysia GA611. While having regular coffee and a time of fellowship with my fellow media buddies from GA, Lemuel suddenly ask me, “weimin, where is your team?” I was new to the 611 Church and media was just I and I alone then. It all started when we heard the Holy Spirit telling us it wasn’t an album that we were suppose to be recording but to film a television series about a chef who travels to more than 7 countries cooking for the poor and needy and honoring the pastors in those countries with a cozy and heart warming meal. The whole pre-production started out as a conversation with my pastor and I. So when Lemuel ask me, where is my team, I told him I have none…

It was then I realized the importance of raising a team, it wasn’t enough if I am good at what I was doing but a true impartation must take place in the months to come. 8 months since cooking with love I am sitting down in Starbucks now with my MacBook pro, tying and imparting this fire which is in me, to see high quality Christians productions impacting and influencing millions of people all around the world. Encouraging the broken hearted, bringing the message of hope to the lost, bringing Christ into the living room of families. Couples married to each other for 20 years will begin to fall in love with each other again. We will speak of freedom and proclaim the goodness of God in their families and bring about a change in the family unit, which in turn will change a society.

5-fold ministry consists of the apostle, the pastor, the evangelist, the prophet and the teacher. Someone once told me, with 5-fold ministry in place, even when the ministry grows big it will sustain over time and increase of manpower. Because it takes 5 a team to keep each other in check. 5 fold ministry if place in the right position will impart a great influence and authority in its role.

So here is it, I present to you 611, 5-fold-ministry production team. 

Apostle/Executive producer:

* First an Apostle then an Executive producer.

Redefining the authority and role of an executive producer. The apostle carries an apostolic anointing and when an apostle says it shall be done, it carries a flow in the whole team to submit and follow.

Pastor/producer:

* First a Pastor then a Producer.

A producer who takes care of the well being of the entire production team must carry a pastor’s heart. Often time, when datelines are near, when everyone is busy in meeting production requirements, its important to have a pastor in the team who execute the tasks with lots of love and EQ.

Evangelist/Music Director/Editor

* First an Evangelist then a Music Director and Editor

A very unique role, an evangelist brings about the message of salvation and good news to the hopeless. Like-wise in a production there is a saying,” a editor/music makes or breaks a production”. Having an evangelist as your editor and music director will bring worship and salvation anointing into the film and this will truly transform the audience after they watch the product.

Prophet/Script writer

* First a Prophet then a scriptwriter

A scriptwriter who is also a prophet will pray earnestly and receive the script from God, he/she will also know when is the season to write different kinds of script. This will bring freshness to the team as God is ever changing and a Prophet having received an anointed script will already deliver 50% of the product.

Teacher/ Director

* First a teacher then a director

Often times, people misinterpreted the director’s role as the most important position in the production. The truth is it takes a team to deliver a production. The director is as good as the team who shoots it. Why is it then a director is a teacher. Because the director takes the script, very similar as a teacher in school who takes what the government of education has produce, and teaches it to a class. In our case, a director takes the script or idea and interprets it into visuals. His role is to direct, to direct the actors, to direct the camera men or the person in charged of the camera unit, the director of photography (DOP) and his role is to direct the editor to achieve what is in his vision, meaning his interpretation of the script. Which is why I design the director as a teacher, as his/her role is so ever important in telling the truth, and to impart the correct doctrine and reflect Godly values in the film he/she directs. A teacher also will summit to the apostle’s direction, this is to help keep him in check as commercial directors often times has a strong influential character and it may be hard to listen to anybody.