Being a Creative Producer is what I’ve christened my final project for the Creative Producing and Entrepreneurship concentration.
The name ‘Being a Creative Producer’ already has a history with my MTA Portfolio as it was at one time the name of a learning module I considered adding to the Creative Producing and Entrepreneurship concentration.
I ended up not using that module because I didn’t have much, other than a few books, to add to its contents.
Anyhow, the name ‘Being a Creative Producer’ implies learning through doing and, to this end, it’s a title much better suited for a practical project.
And being a Creative Producer is something I do a lot of so it makes perfect sense for it to be the name of the final project for Creative Producing and Entrepreneurship.
Similar to my Creative Technologies Sandbox (which is the final project for the Multimedia Studies and Creative Technologies concentration), Being a Creative Producer is less of a singular project and more of a compendium of other projects.
I have also lifted three of the components from my Creative Technologies Sandbox and moved them over to Being a Creative Producer.
This move required a bit of rejigging with the Creative Technologies Sandbox pages, but (thankfully) nothing too headache inducing.
I mainly just had to rename Breaking Cinema from component 7 to component 5.
The three components I moved are…
- The Miracle of Crowdfunding
- The Miracle Mockumentary
- The Cinema Complex
I’m currently pulling together my Creative Technologies Sandbox and, while working on the write up of each component, it increasingly occurred to me that The Miracle of Crowdfunding, The Miracle Mockumentary and The Cinema Complex had less of a focus on exploiting and exploring creative technologies and were much more focused on being creative productions as produced by my creative inclinations.
Technically, the other components of my Creative Technologies Sandbox can also befined as creative productions as producer by my creative inclinations.
But I consider the other components – Web Design with WordPress, Ways 2 Interface, 365 FRAMES 2015, Cameo Microfilms, Breaking Cinema, Coding with Codecademy – to be reflexive explorations of what it is to be a creative production as produced by a creative technologist’s manipulation of creative technologies.
Whereas I felt that The Miracle of Crowdfunding, The Miracle Mockumetary and The Cinema Complex lack this self-reflexive element and instead were just intended to be simply film-like products.
And a purely film-like product sits better under the Creative Producer title.
A Creative Producer is defined as being…
a professional who leads and oversees the project to ensure that the artistic vision is consistently and excellently executed.
How to become a Creative Producer
The move of the components also meant that I had three fleshed out components to add to Being a Creative Producer.
There will be more components for Being a Creative Producer and I will add those up as the projects they present become more actualized.