24FA 4405 Narrative

PRODUCTIONProducer/
Prod Designer		DirectorAsst
Director		CameraGafferProduction
Sound		DIT
Utility
NIKKATSUArbutinaBorlandGiffinQuirkWoolstrumNorthFerraro
PATHÉPolitoJosephMendez PerezBuswellYekelRauscherBrzezinski
POSTGraphicsScore
Super		Audio
Editor		Dialogue
Editor		Foley
Editor		Asst Editor
Colorist		Visual
Editor

PRODUCTION SCRIPTS
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PRACTICE SCRIPTS
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  • PRODUCER
  • Schedules and communicates the production calendar.
  • Budgets the production; manages purchasing
  • A clearing house for all project documentation, the producer maintains personal and location releases.
  • Markets the film: hires poster designer, oversees trailer, strategically enters the film in festivals and competitions.
  • Supervises submission of all documents to D2L.
  • Manages crew conflict with Director.
  • Designs titles and credits.

    DIRECTOR
  • Motivates actors to produce their best dramatic performance.
  • Attends casting sessions and selects actors.  Oversees rehearsals.
  • Interprets a script in storyboards & ground plans; 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 crew conflict with Producer.
  • Coordinates with every department principal to ensure a consistent creative execution.

    ASSISTANT DIRECTOR
  • Maintains and distributes call sheets.
  • Functions as the contact person for everyone in the cast and crew.
  • Schedules and communicates the production stopwatch to the minute.

    CAMERA OPERATOR     (a.k.a. cinematographer, director of photography, lighting cameraman)
  • Manages camera and lighting crew.
  • Creates screen images, overseeing the selection and manipulation of technical equipment: lenses & filters; lighting techniques; camera movements; aspect ratio, digital effects, image contrast, frame rates
  • Consults Director’s storyboard to position the camera.
  • Manages, logs, and backs up all recording media; Delivers recorded media to Editor.

    PRODUCTION DESIGNER
  • Works within budgetary constraints.  Adheres to production schedule.
  • Supervises and presents the pre-production mood board.
  • Works alongside the director to select, purchase, and design the following elements to visually convey the film’s story:  costume, make-up, location scouting, set dressing.

    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. 

    GAFFER
  • Selects, maintains, & safely deploys lighting equipment.
  • Designs & implements the lighting scheme with Camera
  • Keeps detailed nominal, repeatable lighting plots for each camera position.

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

    GRIPS & PRODUCTION ASSISTANTS
  • Works as assigned, with chief responsibility during the shoot to assist with production sound, camera, and lighting.
  • Grips should be recruited by creative principals from lower-level production classes or the Moving Pictures Guild.
  • The most valuable grips offer their help before being asked to do so.

    EDITOR (visual)
  • Consults the Director’s storyboard to select and combine shots into sequences.
  • Works with the Director to creatively tell the film’s story.
  • Works with Production Sound to combine dialogue, FX & music, to creatively meet technical standards of level.

  • ASSISTANT EDITOR
  • Organizes server, project, and bins. 
  • Conscientiously accounts for every digital asset.
  • Synchronizes and merges recorded picture and sound elements.

    EDITOR (audio)
  • Combines the following elements to meet technical standards of level and creatively tell the film’s story:  Dialogue; Score; Foley, Effects, and Atmospheres.
  • Supervises and remixes the work of the Dialogue Editor, Foley Editor, and Script Supervisor.

    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.

    GRAPHICS
  • Designs titles & credits (coordinated with marketing for branding consistency)
  • Designs visual effects

    SCRIPTWRITER
  • Drafts and revises the screenplay.