Camera Operator:
A camera operator (abbreviated as C.O.) is a person that operates a film or video camera for the purpose of recording a production to film.
Focus Puller:
A focus puller, or 1st assistant cameraperson, is a member of a film crew’s camera department whose primary responsibility is to maintain image sharpness on whatever subject or action is being filmed.
Lighting Director:
A lighting director plans all aspects of lighting a production.This role demands a mixture of technical and creative experience. Most lighting directors have progressed from working behind a camera or as an electrician, to working as a lighting technician/assistant and then on to lighting director.
Director of Photography:
director of photography (DP), used to designate a chief over the camera and lighting crews working on a film, responsible for achieving artistic and technical decisions related to the image.
Caption Generator Operator:
Animator:
An animator is an artist who creates multiple images that give an illusion of movement called animation when displayed in rapid sequence; the images are called frames and key frames. Animators can work in a variety of fields including film, television, video games, and the internet.
Stunt Person:
A stunt performer, stuntman, or daredevil is someone who performs dangerous stunts, often as a career.These stunts are sometimes rigged so that they look dangerous while still having safety mechanisms, but often they are as dangerous as they appear to be. There is an inherent risk in the performance of all stunt work in film, television and stage work.
Art Director:
An art director is a blanket title for a variety of similar job functions in advertising, publishing, film and television, the Internet, and video games.
Vision Maker:
A vision mixer is a device used to select between several different video sources and in some cases composite video sources together and add special effects. This is similar to what a mixing console does for audio.
Sound Recordist:
A Sound Recordists prime function is to make sound recordings of outstanding quality, free from interference and all unwanted noise.
Researcher:
Researchers contribute ideas for programmes, source contacts and contributors and collect, verify and prepare information for film, television and radio productions. A researcher can work on a wide variety of programmes or within one subject area.
Continuity Assistant:
The Continuity Assistant in broadcasting is responsible for ensuring that all commercials and programming sold by the sales and programming departments are scheduled to air in accordance to company policies and FCC guidelines.
Special Effects Make up Artist:
A make-up artist ensures that models, performers and presenters have suitable make-up and hairstyles before they appear in front of cameras or an audience. This may be in a variety of settings, including film, television, theatre.
Composer:
Developments in music technology have opened up the area of composing and made it easier to compose, record and distribute music. Additionally, new music technology has played a big part in musical education in schools being as much about creating music as performing and listening to music.
Location Manger:
Location managers are responsible for making all the practical arrangements necessary when filming or photographic shoots take place outside the studio. Productions are made in a wide range of places and location managers need to research, identify and organise appropriate sites.
Foley Editor
ADR Dialogue editor:
The dialogue editor assembles, synchronises, and edits all the dialogue in a film or television production. Usually they will use the production tracks: the sound that was recorded on the set. They will smooth it out in terms of volume and equalisation.
Screenwriter:
Screenwriters or scenarists or scriptwriters are people who write/create the short or feature-length screenplays from which films and television programs are based.Screenwriters have their ideas produced in a script with the intention of making it into a film. The majority of the times a film project gets initiated by a screenwriter.There are times when more than one writer will work on a script.
Construction Manager:
Construction Managers supervise the construction of sets and stages for film productions. They co-ordinate the entire process of set building, from initial planning through to the final coat of paint on the finished sets.
Casting Director:
Casting Directors organise and facilitate the casting of actors for all the roles in a film. This involves working closely with the Director and Producer to understand their requirements, and suggesting ideal artists for each role, as well as arranging and conducting interviews and auditions.
Health and Safety Consultant:
Health and Safety Consultants in the film industry give advice on health and safety management systems within each film or production, reviewing each company's Health and Safety policy, and ensuring that health and safety arrangements and the appropriate personnel are in place.
Steadicam Operator:
Steadicam Operators are specialists within the camera department. They may be hired on a daily basis to perform specific shots within a scene, or employed as Camera Operators who specialize in Steadicam. The invention of the Steadicam was revolutionary in terms of film making.
Grip:
grips are lighting and rigging technicians in the film and video industries. They make up their own department on a film set and are directed by a key grip. The first is to work closely with the camera department to provide camera support, especially if the camera is mounted to a dolly, crane, or in an unusual position, such as the top of a ladder. Some grips may specialize in operating camera dollies or camera cranes.
Art Director:
Advertising art directors, often referred to as creatives, are responsible for producing innovative ideas for advertising campaigns in all kinds of media
Gaffer:
A gaffer in the motion picture industry is the head of the electrical department, responsible for the execution (and sometimes the design) of the lighting plan for a production. Gaffer, outside of the motion picture industry, is a traditional British English word for an older man or boss. Gaffer within the motion picture industry originally related to the moving of overhead equipment to control lighting levels using a gaff
