Want to hire a Vietnamese local producer in Vietnam for your upcoming project?
We would like to give you a great recommendation of a Vietnamese local producer that you’ve been looking for.
Making films in Vietnam is becoming more and more popular, and having a local Vietnamese producer to work with you for your project would make everything easier.
Here is how a Vietnamese local producer doing his/her work:
Vietnamese local producer meeting and discussing with potential Client about the potential project
Getting to understand a potential project to see what you can offer and can help the Client as a producer is very important. As a Vietnamese producer, I try to understand or figure out with the director or production company who want to shoot in Vietnam:
+ What type of movie it is?
+ What’s the story like?
+ Would you send your crew here to shoot? Or you want us to shoot everything for you?
+ How’s the set up of the shooting?
+ How many cameras? How big is the crew? In case you want us to shoot everything, then we will decide on crew, you just need to send us tech specs.
+ Shots list/ Script
Vietnamese local producer discussing with potential Client about costs
Costs will be discussed with following categories:
+ Local crew
+ Equipment
+ Transportation
+ Food and accommodation
+ Permit fee
and what do they entail, payment terms and method
Vietnamese local producer works on pre-production
Upon local crew, equipment, shots list and costs are agreed, local producer in Vietnam need to work on pre-production to prepare for the shoot. That includes:
+ Prepare with the filming locations, interviewees, local crew about timing and schedule; setting which scene film first, which scene film last; when film indoor, when film outdoor; depending on weather, people’s availability, lighting, and if certain events would happen that need to be captured (or would be interesting to capture)
Not all the time everything can be arranged in advance, but Vietnam producer would predict and prepare based on their experience.
+ Discuss with DoP about the shoot.
+ Translate interview questions from Vietnamese to English, and verify questions to make sure everything is clear.
+ Prepare transportation to pick up crew and equipment on the shoot date.
+ Prepare ideas for meals and prepare water and drinks for crew members.
Vietnamese local producer’s task on production days
+ Make sure everyone depart on time to arrive to the filming location on time for the shoot to happen on time.
+ Arrange for the shoot to happen as planned, and make sure everyone plays their role perfectly.
+ When interview, make sure the interviewees understand the question well and answer clearly (including/ mentioning the question in the answer); look at the interviewer, not the camera; the frame of the interview is right (1/2 or 2/3); make sure no noise around, or the noise doesn’t affect the quality of the interview.