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 REC
    • 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.
  • AUDIO 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.