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Film job table

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The Film Job type includes all work positions on a film crew, both above and below the line.

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x Film crew Afbeelding:FilmsetStructuur      
A film crew is a group of people hired by a production 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. Crew...
x Foley artist     Gregg Barbanell Babylon 5: The Gathering
The Foley artist on a film crew is the person who creates many of the natural, everyday sound effects in a film, which are recorded during a session with a recording engineer. Before the session, a project will be cued, with notes kept about what...
Vince Nicastro Babylon 5: The Gathering
Adrian Medhurst The Last Confession of Alexander Pearce
x Executive Producer   Job title Chris Hilton The Last Confession of Alexander Pearce
An executive producer of a motion picture is typically a producer who is sometimes involved in creative or technical aspects of production. This person generally handles business issues, and may also be a financier of a film. Some executive...
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x Cinematographer   Profession    
A cinematographer is one photographing with a motion picture camera (the art and science of which is known as cinematography). The title is generally equivalent to director of photography (DP or DoP), used to designate a chief over the camera and...
TV crew role
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x Production sound mixer     Jim Tanenbaum Babylon 5: The Gathering
A production sound mixer or location sound recordist is the member of a film crew responsible for recording all sound and sound effects on set during the photography of a motion picture, for later inclusion in the finished product, or for reference...
Adrian Medhurst The Last Confession of Alexander Pearce
Coleman Metts Voodoo Academy
x Film producer DavidSelznick Profession    
A film producer is a person who creates the conditions for making movies. The producer initiates, co-ordinates, supervises and controls matters such as fund-raising, hiring key personnel and arranging for distributors. The producer is involved...
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x Sound editor        
A sound editor is a creative professional responsible for selecting and assembling sound recordings in preparation for the final sound mixing or mastering of a television program, motion picture, video game, or any production involving recorded or...
x Gaffer     Fernando Moreno Vantage Point
Gaffers is the nickname for a member of the Gaffney family.
John K. Farr Babylon 5: The Gathering
Jerry Biron Voodoo Academy
x Lighting technician   Profession    
Lighting technicians are involved with rigging and controlling lights for entertainment venues (film or theater). Toward this end, they work under the direction of the cinematographer and gaffer (in film) or the lighting designer and master...
x Boom operator Boom operator   Cindy Gess Babylon 5: The Gathering
A boom operator is an assistant of the production sound mixer. The principal responsibility of the boom operator is microphone placement, sometimes using a "fishpole" with a microphone attached to the end and sometimes, when the situation permits,...
Robert Fisher Voodoo Academy
x Camera operator   TV crew role Stephen Collins Babylon 5: The Gathering
A camera operator is a person that operates a film or video camera for the purpose of recording motion to film, video, or a computer storage medium. Camera operators serving in an official capacity in the process of filmmaking may be known variously...
x Key grip     Jan M. Heyneker Babylon 5: The Gathering
In American and Canadian film-making, the key grip is the chief grip on the set. Like a foreman, the key grip directs a crew of grips, some with specialized skills such as dolly grips, crane operators, camera car operators, etc. The key grip is...
Manuel R. Duran Voodoo Academy
x Grip        
In the U.S. and Canada, grips are lighting and rigging technicians in the film and video industries. They make up their own department on a film set and are led by a key grip. Grips have two main functions. The first is to work closely with the...
x Sound design   Theater Designer Role Harry Cohen Babylon 5: The Gathering
Sound design is a technical/conceptually creative field. It covers all non-compositional elements of a film, a play, a music performance or recording, computer game software or any other multimedia project. A person who practices the art of sound...
James Currie The Last Confession of Alexander Pearce
Tom Heuzenroeder The Last Confession of Alexander Pearce
x Best boy     John Raymer Babylon 5: The Gathering
In a film crew there are two kinds of best boy: 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 ...
x Focus puller        
In cinematography, a focus puller or first assistant camera (1st AC) is the member of a film crew responsible for keeping the camera's focus at the proper position during a shoot. This typically requires pulling the focus with a follow focus device...
x Clapper loader        
A clapper loader, second assistant camera (2nd AC) or simply loader, is part of a film crew, whose main functions are that of loading the raw film stock into camera magazines, operating the clapperboard (slate) at the beginning of each take, marking...
x Production designer   Profession Anton Furst Batman
Production designer is a term used in the movie and television industries to refer to the person responsible for the overall look of a filmed event such as films, TV programs, music videos or adverts. Production Designers have one of the key...
John Iacovelli Babylon 5: The Gathering
Felicity Abbott The Last Confession of Alexander Pearce
Peggy Paola Voodoo Academy
Jack Fisk Phantom of the Paradise
x Body double   Special film performance type    
A body double is a general term for someone who substitutes for the credited actor of a character in any recorded visual medium, whether videotape or film. The term is most commonly used in the context of head-to-toe (or nearly) shots involving...
x Assistant director        
An assistant director (AD) is a person who helps the director in the making of a movie or television show. The duties of an AD include setting the shooting schedule, tracking daily progress against the filming production schedule, arranging...
x Dialogue editor     Cathie Speakman Babylon 5: The Gathering
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...
x Dolly grip        
In cinematography, the dolly grip is the individual who operates the camera dolly. He or she places, levels, and moves the dolly track, then pushes and pulls the dolly and usually a camera operator and camera assistant as riders. If the dolly has a...
x Scenographer        
A scenographer develops the appearance of a stage design, a TV or movie set, a gaming environment, a trade fair exhibition design or a museum experience exhibition design. The term originated in theater. A scenographer works together with the...
x Second unit director   Person    
The second unit director is the leader of the second unit, which is the smaller of the two units used on almost every modern large-scale film production. This director is often responsible for minor shots, such as establishing shots. Occasionally,...
Film director
x Videographer        
Strictly speaking, a videographer is a person who works in the video medium — recording moving images and sound on tape, disk, other electro-mechanical device, broadcasting live, or even on actual celluloid film in some cases. On a set, he or she is...
x Construction grip        
A construction grip is a worker on a set of a movie or dramatic production. Construction grips are found most commonly in, or on jobs that originate in New York. The construction key grip and his crew work with the construction coordinator and his...
x Property master     Guy Pepin Babylon 5: The Gathering
The property master is an artistic and organizational employee in a film, television or theatrical production who is responsible for purchasing, acquiring and/or manufacturing any props needed for a production. The property master also works with...
Paul Stewart The Last Confession of Alexander Pearce
Sarah Geller Voodoo Academy
x Utility sound technician        
A utility sound technician, or simply utility or cableperson is an assistant to both the production sound mixer and the boom operator on a film set. Although sometimes the utility pulls cable, he or she is more than just a cableperson. The utility...
x Leadman     Philip Harford Voodoo Academy
A leadman is an art department member who is in responsible for the swing gang and/or the set dressers on a film set. The swing gang does the set construction and demolition. Set dressers keep the set in the proper condition by placing and moving...
x Set decorator     Peter Young Batman
A set decorator is in charge of the set dressing on a film set, which includes the furnishings, wallpaper, lighting fixtures, and many of the other objects that will be seen in the film. Props and set dressing often overlap, but are provided by...
x Set dresser     Michael Mora Babylon 5: The Gathering
Set dressers arrange objects on a film set before shooting. They work under the direction of a leadman, a set decorator and a production designer. Set dressers place furniture, hang pictures, and put out decorative items. They are also responsible...
Peter Malatesta The Last Confession of Alexander Pearce
Pia Pederson Voodoo Academy
Sissy Spacek Phantom of the Paradise
x Location scouting        
Location Scouting is a vital process in the pre-production stage of filmmaking and commercial photography. Once scriptwriters, producers or directors have decided what general kind of scenery they require for the various parts of their work that is...
x Script supervisor     Haley McLane Babylon 5: The Gathering
A script supervisor or continuity is a member of a film crew responsible for maintaining the film's internal continuity and for marking the production unit's daily progress in shooting the film's screenplay. On early films, the job of script...
Jesse H. Long Voodoo Academy
Maury Carvajal Vantage Point
x Swing gang        
In film-making, a swing gang is one or more persons who make last-minute changes on a film set. This may include construction of new portions of a set the director requests or simply striking large furniture at a set dresser's request.
x Location manager Film shooting on Location in Downtown Los Angeles      
The Location Department is an often forgotten yet integral department in the creation of a motion picture. Like the Production Coordinator, it is only when things go wrong that the Location Manager gets any recognition. In Hollywood, they are...