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The DIRECTOR's Role:

Visualizes the screenplay, controlling a film's artistic and dramatic expression and aspects, while leading the crew and cast in the accomplishment of his or her vision.

Some of the key People behind the camera

Cinematographer: Or DP (Director of Photography), used to designate a chief over the camera and lighting crew working on a film, responsible for achieving artistic and technical decisions related to the image. The cinematographer is sometimes also the camera operator. The term cinematographer has been a point of contention for some time now; some professionals insist that it only applies when the director of photography and camera operator are the same person, although this is far from being uniformly the case. To most, cinematographer and director of photography are interchangeable terms.

Producer: creates the conditions for making the film. The producer initiates, coordinates, supervises and controls matters such as raising funding, hiring key personnel, and arranging for distributors. The producer is involved throughout all phases of the filmmaking process from developement to completion of a project.

Line producer: Typically, a line producer manages the budget of a motion picture. Alternatively, or in addition, they may manage the day to day physical aspects of the film production, serving a role similar to the Production Manager.

Gaffer: The head of the electrical department, responsible for the execution (and sometimes the design) of the lighting plan for a production. In British English the term gaffer is long established as meaning an old man, or the foreman of a squad of workmen. The term was also used to describe men who adjusted lighting in English theatre and men who tended street lamps, after the "gaff" they used, a pole with a hook on its end.

Gripps/Electrician: Lighting and rigging technician in the audio visual industries. They make up their own department on a film set and are led by a key gripp. Grips have two main functions. The first is to work closely with the camera department, especially if the camera is mounted to a dolly, crane or other unusual position. Some grips may specialize in operating camera dollies cranes. The second is to work closely with the electrical department to put in the lighting set-ups necessary for a shot. The Grip and utility grip are part of this department.

Animal trainers

Animators

Art Directors

Assistant Camera Operators

Assistant Directors

Audio Engineers

Audio Equipment Rental

Camera-Operators

/Photographers

35 mm

16 mm

HDTV

Steadicam

camera utility

Assistant camera operators

Carpenters

Casting

Composers

CATERERS and KRAFT SERVICES

Digital services

Digital production

DIRECTORS/PRODUCERS

DIRECTORS

Dolly operator

DRAFTSMEN

Drivers

Editors

Postproduction facilities

Recording

Gaffer

Greensman

Grips/Electrician

Grips

Utility grip

Safety co-coordinator

Hair and make up

Location managers

Location scouts

Medical

Model makers

PROPS

Scenic artists

Production assistants

Photographers

Precision drivers

Producers

Screenwriters

Storyboard artists

Story editors

Security and bodyguards

Set designers

Set construction

Set dressers

Sketch artists

Sound recording

Songwriters

Stage manager

Stunts

Teleprompter

Transportation Manager

Videographer

Video assistant

Wranglers