Executive producer

See also: Producing

The executive producer is a trade specific to the productions of cultural works which require the collaboration of many people such as the Cinéma or the Video game.

In the video game, its task consists in directing different the producing responsible for the development from a video game.

The executive producer actually corresponds to the Anglo-Saxon trade of Line producer (name especially used in television). For the cinema, it thus should not be confused with the Associate producer (indicated in English by the False-friend executive producer ).

The executive producer is employed by the Associate producer and establishes the bond between the studio and film. He plays a part of manager but does not endorse the responsibility. (The responsibility is naturally left with its employer, the Associate producer ).

It is about an appeared trade when the creation of such works became an even industrial marketing activity.

The executive producer ensures the manufacture of the program concretely, within the framework of the adopted budget. For this reason, it engages the teams and draws up the contracts in conformity with the law the labor and of the collective agreements. It joins together average techniques by calling upon technical people receiving benefits and is present on turning. It ensures the follow-up of the manufacture of the program and control the budget and the deadlines.

See too

Producing of cinema
About the English translation
trades of production to the cinema

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