CREW RESPONSIBILITIES
- PRODUCER
- Schedules & communicates the calendar.
- Budgets & manages purchasing.
- Maintains personal & location releases.
- Supervises submission of all documents to D2L.
- Manages crew conflict with Director.
- Designs titles and credits.
DIRECTOR - Interprets the script in storyboards & ground plans.
- Selects locations, costumes, props, & make-up.
- Selects & rehearses actors.
- Manages crew conflict with Producer.
- Coordinates with Camera & Editor to ensure a consistent creative execution.
CAMERA - Selects, maintains, & safely deploys imaging equipment.
- Consults Director’s storyboard to position the camera.
- Collaborates with Lighting in the proper configuration and operation of the camera.
- Manages, logs, and backs up all recording media; Delivers recorded media to Editor.
GAFFER - Selects, maintains, & safely deploys lighting equipment.
- Designs & implements the lighting scheme with Camera
- Keeps detailed lighting plots for each camera position.
GRIP - Works as assigned, with chief responsibility during the shoot to assist with production sound, camera, and lighting. The most valuable grips offer their help before being asked to do so.
EDITOR - Organizes server, project, and bins.
- Consults the Director’s storyboard to select and combine shots into sequences.
- Works with the Director to creatively tell the film’s story.
AUDIO - Selects, maintains, and safely deploys audio recording equipment.
- Makes & logs dual-system recordings of all location dialogue, roomtone, and wildcat effects.
- Manages and backs up all recording media; Delivers recorded media to the Editor.
- Works with the Editor to combine dialogue, FX & music, to creatively meet technical standards of level.
COLORIST - Makes individual shots recorded with different cameras or 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.