• Motivating actors to produce their best performance. Reading scripts and working on its continued development. Attending casting sessions and selecting actors.• Interpreting a script and understanding the story and narrative style. Overseeing rehearsals.• Identifying set locations.• Working within budgetary constraints. Managing conflict onset.• Adhering to a production schedule.• Coordinating with a camera crew, art directors, costume designers, and musical composers to ensure consistent creative execution.• Working with the editor to create the film in its final form. Assisting in the marketing and promotion of the film.

• Develop and research ideas for original movie screenplays. Create an initial framework, or treatment, for screenplays. Write or adapt a story into a script.• Weave together visual elements in scenes with plot and dialogue.• Work with producers and directors to edit and adjust the script as needed.

• Securing funding for production. Recruiting the appropriate staff. Outlining a long-term working timeline.• Managing the daily affairs of cast and crew.• Seeing the production through from conception to the final cut. Outlining a budget and working within its limitations.• Complying with industry and union regulations. Ensuring that the final product is of the highest quality.• Approving all decisions on props, sets, scheduling changes, etc. Resolving internal conflict during production.• Assisting in the marketing and promotion of the product.