What is an Executive Producers Responsibility?
Just what do executive producers do, anyway? Nobody really seems to know the answer to this question. The executive producer credit is usually displayed first (or last) in a production; no doubt they’re important folks. Besides obtaining the money, there are other aspects to the executive producer’s job including people, and developing relationships. The management of these relationships falls into the executive producer’s domain. The executive producer is responsible for all the key relationships. On one side, you have the business relationships between financiers, facilities, distributors, marketers and broadcasters. On the other side, you have creative relationships. The executive producer may hire the producer, director and writer. The concept for the program may be something that the executive producer found or developed. The executive producer is often the first person to get the project financed, fully packaged and made. (In some instances, producers bring their packages to exec
