CREW DUTIES - NON-FIC

TOHOGARVEY SGILBER JHANKEY KMILLER EMOCTEZ ISCHIMP M
MEDUSAHESSEL MPAYNE JAMILLER RGRANDE JGERACE M

PRODUCER

  • Schedules the production (calendar & stopwatch).
  • Writes/gathers/edits interview questions (in collaboration with the director)
  • Makes a b-roll shot list (in collaboration with the director)
  • Budgets the production; manages purchasing
  • A clearing house for all project documentation, the producer maintains and distributes call sheets as well as personal and location releases.
  • Maintains credits list
  • Markets the film: hires poster designer, oversees trailer, strategically enters the film in festivals and competitions.

DIRECTOR

  • Interviews the film’s subject.
  • Makes a b-roll shot list (in collaboration with the producer).
  • Writes/gathers/edits interview questions (in collaboration with the producer)
  • Works within budgetary constraints.  Adheres to production schedule.
  • Manages conflict on set.
  • Coordinates with camera crew and composer to ensure a consistent creative execution.
  • Works with the editor to create the film in its final form.

CAMERA OPERATORS (2)

  • (a.k.a. cinematographer, director of photography, lighting cameraman)
  • Records multi-cam interview
  • Records B-Roll, sensitive to the shot list (see director and producer roles above)
  • 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
  • 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 interview lighting scheme in concert with the cinematographer
  • Supervises a crew that safely maintains and moves lighting equipment (chiefly best boy).
  • Keeps detailed nominal, repeatable lighting plots

PRODUCTION SOUND

  • 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.

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.  On smaller crews, this is often a function of the producer.

ASSISTANT EDITOR

  • Organizes server, project, and bins.  The variety of b-roll makes labeling and arranging server folders and project bins considerably more intricate than it might be on a narrative film.
  • Synchronizes and merges recorded picture and sound elements.
  • Creates multi-cam sequences

AUDIO EDITOR

  • Combines the following elements to meet technical standards of level and creatively tell the film’s story:  Dialogue; Score; Foley, Effects, and Atmospheres

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
  • On smaller crews, this is often a function of the colorist or producer.