456 FA22 Crew

Producer

• Schedules the production (calendar)
• 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.

Assistant Director

• Authors call sheets.  The contact person for everyone in the cast and crew.
• Schedules the production (stopwatch).

Screenwriter

• Writes the script.

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
• Manages and backs up all recording media (in conjunction with the Digital Imaging Technician); Delivers recorded media to the editor

Gaffer

• Designs and implements the lighting scheme in concert with the Cinematographer
• Supervises a crew that safely maintains and moves lighting equipment.
• Keeps detailed nominal, repeatable lighting plots.

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
• Manages and backs up all recording media (in conjunction with the Digital Imaging Technician); Delivers recorded media to the editor.

Digital Imaging Technician

• Manages, logs, and backs up all audio and video recording media; Delivers recorded media to the assistant editor.  Provides empty recording media to the cinematographer.

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

Editor (Visual)

• Selects shots, combines them into sequences.
• Works with the director to creatively tell the film’s story

Assistant Editor

• Organizes raw footage.

Editor (Audio)

• Combines the following elements to meet technical standards of level and creatively tell the film’s story:
  • Dialogue
  • Foley, Effects, Atmospheres
  • Score.  Contract with a composer to add original music.  Records and mixes separate tracks of audio.

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