What the fudge is a Best Boy? What's a DP? Who the hell grips a Dolly? What the heck is a Xenon? Confused by all the jargon used within the film industry? Well, fear no more as here at Stormforce Pictures we present the film-makers glossary to help make sense of all those technical names!
The information below is taken directly from the Internet Movie Database so, should you find a term not defined below, click here to visit them to get your answer!
A collective term used to refer to people who have a significant degree of control over the creation of a movie: directors, producers, screenwriters, and editors
Executive Producer - A producer who is not involved in any technical aspects of the filmmaking process, but who is still responsible for the overall production. Typically, an EP handles business and legal issues.
Producer - The chief of a movie production in all matters save the creative efforts of the director. Responsible for raising funding, finding key personnel, arranging for distributors.
Associate Producer - Shares responsibility for creative and business issues.
Line Producer - A producer who is responsible for managing every person and issue during the making of a film. Line producers only work on one film at a time.
Director - The principal creative artist on a movie set. A director is usually the driving artistic source behind the filming process, and communicates to actors the way that he/she would like a particular scene played. A director's duties might also include casting, script editing, shot selection, shot composition, and editing.
Director of Photography (DP) - A cinematographer who is ultimately responsible for the process of recording a scene in the manner desired by the director. The DP has a number of possible duties: selection of film stock, cameras and lenses; designing and selecting lighting, directing the gaffer's placement of lighting, shot composition (in consultation with the director).
Unit Production Manager - An executive who is responsible to a senior producer for the administration of a particular movie. UPMs only work on one film at a time.
Screenwriter - Writes the script
Art Director - The person who oversees the artists and craftspeople who build the sets.
Editor - A person who performs editing (in consultation with the director) on a movie. This term usually refers to someone who does visual editing.
The section of a production's crew responsible for promoting a movie
Publicity Director - Chief of the publicity department, responsible for promoting the movie through the media.
Publicity Assistant - Assistant to the publicity director.
Still Photographer - A person who photographs the action (often alongside the camera) to be used in publicizing the movie.
Director - See above.
Assistant Director - An assistant director's duties include tracking the progress of filming versus the production schedule, and preparing call sheets (a listing of which actors will be required for which scenes and when they will be required).
Second Assistant Director - An assistant to the assistant director. Duties include overseeing the movements of the cast, and preparing call sheets.
Third Assistant Director - An assistant to the second assistant director; responsible for (among other things) directing the movements of extras.
Script Supervisor - A person who tracks which parts have been filmed, how the filmed scenes deviated from the script; they also make continuity notes, creating a lined script (a copy of the shooting script which is prepared during production to indicate, via notations and vertical lines drawn directly onto the script pages, exactly what coverage has been shot.)
Production Manager - Reporting to the film's producer, this person is responsible for the practical matters such as ordering equipment, getting near-location accommodations for the cast and crew, etc...
Production Secretary - Secretary to the Production Manager Location Manager - A person who manages various aspects of filming on location, such as arranging with authorities for permission to shoot in specific places.
Location Scout - A person who looks for suitable locations for filming.
Production Illustrator - A person responsible for drawing the storyboards and anything else that needs to be drawn during the production of the movie.
Costume Designer - A person who designs the costumes for a movie.
Costume Supervisor - A person responsible for handling the costumes worn by actors.
Set Director - The art director's assistant in designing and constructing sets.
Set Dresser - A person who has total charge of decorating the set with all furnishings, drapery, interior plants, and anything seen on indoor sets or on the walls.
Property Master - A person responsible for buying/acquiring any props needed for a production.
Property Assistant - Responsible for the placement and maintenance of props on a set.
Production Assistants - People responsible for various odd jobs, such as stopping traffic, acting as couriers, fetching items from craft service, etc. PA's are often attached to individual actors or filmmakers.
Director of Photography - See above.
Camera Operator - The person who operates the camera to the specifications dictated by the DP.
Assistant Camera Operator - Assists the camera operator. Responsible for the maintenance and care of the camera, as well as preparing dope sheets (a list of scenes from the script that have already been filmed, or a list of contents footage already shot). Focus Puller - A member of the camera crew who adjusts the focus of the camera during filming.
Clapper-Loader - The person who operates the clapboard at the beginning of a shot, also responsible for loading the camera.
Dolly grip (TBD) - A grip that moves a dolly.
Key grip - The chief of a group of grips, often doubling for a construction co-ordinator and a backup for the camera crew. Key grips work closely with the gaffer.
Grip - A person responsible for the adjustment and maintenance of production equipment on the set. Their typical duties include laying dolly tracks or erecting scaffolding. --
Create the sound track in collaboration with the director
Sound Designer - The conceptual chief of a movie's soundtrack, responsible for designing and creating the audio component of a movie.
Sound Editor - A member of the sound crew who performs editing on the soundtrack. Sound Mixer - An audio engineer who performs the sound mix.
Sound Recordist - Responsible for operating the audio recording equipment on a set.
Boom Operator - Responsible for operating the boom microphone.
Re-Recording Mixer - Responsbile for mixing the final sound elements (dialogue, music, S/FX and foley).
Music Supervisor - A person who coordinates the work of the composer, the editor and sound mixers.
Foley Artist - A person who creates foley sound effects.
Lighting is designed by the DP in consultation with the director, and is the responsibility of the electrical department
Gaffer - The head of the electrical department.
Lighting Technician - A member of the electrical department that is responsible for operating lights and lighting equipment on a set.
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