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__NOTOC__A film crew is a group of people hired by a film company for the purpose of producing a film or motion picture. Crew are distinguished from cast, the actors who appear in front of the camera or provide voices for characters in the film.
1 Production and general
These crew members keep the production orderly.
- Film director
- Responsible for overall content and artistic vision of the film. Guild: D.G.A. Directors Guild of America ( http://www.dga.org/ )
- Assistant director
- Guild: D.G.A. Directors Guild of America ( http://www.dga.org/ )
- Line producer
- Producer with day-to-day responsibility for a film. The line producer is responsible for keeping the production on schedule and within budget.
- Unit manager
- Works under senior producer to handle administrative and management aspects of the film.
- Script supervisor/ continuity person (formerly script girl)
- Keeps track of what parts of the script have been filmed and makes notes of any deviations between what was actually filmed and what appeared in the script. Ensures that consistency is maintained from shot to shot.
- Production designer
- Person responsible for the visual appearance of a production.
- Art director
- Oversees artists and craftspeople who build the sets.
2 Camera and lighting
- Cinematographer or director of photography
- Guilds: A.S.C. American Society of Cinematographers, B.S.C. British Society of Cinematographers
- Camera operator
- Works under Cinematographer to set up and choeograph shots. Physically operates the camera during shots.
- Focus puller (First assistant camera)
- Responsible for keeping camera in focus during a take. Assists camera operator.
- Clapper loader (Second assistant camera), formerly clap boyA clap boy or clapper-boy is a defunct movie industry profession. This person loaded film into and out of film magazines in cameras in early filmmaking. The most up-to-date job title for someone doing this is second assistant camera (2AC). The job is an i
- Operates clapboard at beginning of each take and loads film stock into film magazines. Assists first assistant camera.
- GafferIn the motion picture industry a gaffer is the head of the electrical department, responsible for the design and execution of the lighting plan for a production. Sometimes the gaffer is credited as Chief Lighting Technician . In television the term Lighti
- Chief electrician
- Best boyIn a film crew there are two kinds of Best Boys; Best Boy Electric and Best Boy Grip. In the simplest forms, they are assistants to their department heads, the Gaffer and the Key Grip, respectively. On films with very small crews, the Electric (lighting)
- Assistant to gaffer
- Key gripIn film-making, the key grip is the chief grip on the set. Grips create shadow effects with lights and operate camera cranes, dollies and platforms as directed by the cinematographer. The term grip is used in slightly different ways in American and Britis
- Supervisor of the gripsA Grip is a term that dates back to the early days of the circus. It carried on from there to vaudeville and on to today's music and film soundstages and sets. In the U. these are the people that do the laborous work on these sets. They push, pull, roll,. Grips are responsible for jobs such as setting up equipment and moving props.
- Light technicianLight technicians are involved with setting up and controlling lighting equipment. Toward this end, they will confer with the director and the cinematographer. Light technicans will also study the script to determine lighting effects required. They are re
- Sets up and controls lighting equipment
