ART414.001 FA21 Crew
Production Responsibility | Crew Member | Post-Production Responsibility |
---|---|---|
Production Sound 02, Digital Imaging Technician | Ceres | Editor (Audio) |
Producer, Production Designer | Copeland | Editor (Visual), Graphics |
Director | Innes | Color |
Lighting 02 | Labonowski | Asst. Editor, Score |
Lighting 01 | Lattner-Lane | Foley/FX |
Production Sound 01 | Schiffbauer | Color |
Camera | Tipton | Dialogue Editor |
Production Responsibilities
Producer
- Schedules the production
- Budgets the production; manages purchasing
- Maintains personal and location releases
- Maintains credits list
- Markets the film
- Hires poster designer
- Oversees trailer
- Strategically enters the film in festivals.
Director
- Motivates actors to produce their best dramatic performance.
- Attends casting sessions and selects actors. Oversees rehearsals.
- Interprets a script; understands the story and narrative style.
- Chooses set locations from among those scouted by the Production Designer.
- Works within budgetary constraints. Adheres to production schedule.
- Manages conflict on set.
- Coordinates with camera crew, production designer, and composer to ensure a consistent creative execution.
- Works with the editor to create the film in its final form.
Cinematographer
(a.k.a. director of photography, lighting cameraman, camera operator)
- Manages camera and lighting crew
- Oversee the selection and manipulation of technical equipment to create screen images.
- Lenses & Filters
- Lighting techniques
- Camera movements
- Aspect ratio, digital effects, image contrast, frame rates
- Delivers recorded media to the DIT
Gaffer
- Creates a prescriptive lighting plot. Includes location scouting and sunlight research/prediction.
- Specifies, checks out, and returns lighting instruments
- Hangs lights to support the work of the cinematographer
- Manages electrics to support lighting
- Revises a descriptive lighting plot and set photos as a nominal, repeatable record
Production Sound
(a.k.a. production sound mixer, location sound recordist, location sound engineer, or sound mixer)
- Works within budgetary constraints. Adheres to production schedule.
- Manages audio crew (chiefly the boom operator and utility sound technician).
- Selects, maintains, and deploys microphones, cables, field recorders, mixers, and headphones
- Makes and logs dual-system recordings of all location dialogue
- Makes and logs recordings of roomtone and wildcat effects
- Delivers recorded media to the DIT
Digital Imaging Technician
- Manages, logs, and backs up all audio and video recording media
- Organizes server folders
- Delivers recorded media to the editor
Production Designer
- Works within budgetary constraints. Adheres to production schedule.
- Works alongside the director to select and design the following elements to visually convey the film’s story:
- Costumes
- Make-Up
- Location Scouting
- Set Dressing
Post Production Responsibilities
Editor (Visual)
- Organizes raw footage.
- Selects shots, combines them into sequences.
- Works with the director to creatively tell the film’s story
Editor (Audio)
- supervise and combines the work of the following three editors:
Editor (Dialogue)
- edits, mixes, and replaces dialogue recordings
Editor (Foley, FX, Atmospheres)
- records and mixes sound effects and background ambience
Editor (Score)
- contracts with a composer
- records, edits, and mixes multi-track music recordings
Colorist
- Effects basic color correction.
- Input LUT (Look Up Table)
- White Balance
- Temperature
- Tint
- Tone
- Exposure
- Contrast
- Highlights
- Shadows
- Whites
- Blacks
- Make individual shots recorded under different lighting conditions look like they belong in the same scene.
- Monitors for broadcast-safe levels of brightness and color.
- Adds subjective, creative color grading to creatively tell the film’s story.
Graphics
- Designs titles (coordinated with marketing for branding consistency)
- Designs visual effects
- Designs credit crawl