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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...
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| 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...
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| Vince Nicastro | Babylon 5: The Gathering | |||
| Adrian Medhurst | The Last Confession of Alexander Pearce | |||
| x Executive Producer | Chris Hilton | The Last Confession of Alexander Pearce |
An executive producer is a producer who is not involved in any technical aspects of the filmmaking or music process, but who is still responsible for the overall production. Typically an executive producer handles business and legal issues. See also...
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| John Daly | An American Affair | |||
| x Cinematographer |
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), used to designate a chief over the camera and lighting...
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| x Production sound mixer |
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Jim Tanenbaum | Babylon 5: The Gathering |
A production sound mixer, location sound recordist, location sound engineer or simply sound mixer 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...
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| Adrian Medhurst | The Last Confession of Alexander Pearce | |||
| Coleman Metts | Voodoo Academy | |||
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A film producer or movie producer is someone who creates the scenes and conditions for making movies. The producer initiates, co-ordinates, supervises and controls matters such as fund-raising, hiring key personnel and arranging for distributors....
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| x Sound editor | Gerry Anderson | Devil Girl from Mars |
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...
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| x Gaffer | Fernando Moreno | Vantage Point |
Gaffers is the nickname for a member of the Gaffney family.
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| John K. Farr | Babylon 5: The Gathering | |||
| Jerry Biron | Voodoo Academy | |||
| x Lighting technician |
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Lighting technicians are involved with rigging and controlling electric lights for art and entertainment venues (theater or live music venues) or in video, television, or film production. In a theater production, lighting technicians work under the...
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| x Boom operator |
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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,...
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| Robert Fisher | Voodoo Academy | |||
| x Camera operator | Stephen Collins | Babylon 5: The Gathering |
A camera operator (Abbreviation: C.O.) is a person that operates a film or video camera for the purpose of recording a production to film, video, or a computer storage medium. Camera operators serving in an official capacity in the process of...
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| x Key grip | Jan M. Heyneker | Babylon 5: The Gathering |
In American and Canadian film-making, the key grip is the chief grip (lighting and rigging technician) 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...
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| 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...
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| x Sound design | Harry Cohen | Babylon 5: The Gathering |
Sound design is a conceptually creative/technical 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...
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| 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 ...
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| x Focus puller |
In cinematography, a focus puller or first assistant camera (1st AC) is a member of a film crew's camera department who is responsible for keeping the camera properly focused during a shoot.
The role of the 1st AC (until recently known as Focus...
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| 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...
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| x Production designer | 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...
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| John Iacovelli | Babylon 5: The Gathering | |||
| Felicity Abbott | The Last Confession of Alexander Pearce | |||
| Peggy Paola | Voodoo Academy | |||
| Jack Fisk | Phantom of the Paradise | |||
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| x Body double |
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...
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| x Assistant director | Swati Guild | Eddibu |
An assistant director (AD) is a person who helps the filmmaker 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...
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| 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...
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| x Dolly grip |
In cinematography, the dolly grip is the individual who operates the camera dolly. He 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...
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| 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...
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| x Second unit director |
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,...
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| 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...
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| 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...
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| 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...
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| 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...
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| x Leadman | Philip Harford | Voodoo Academy |
A leadman is an art department member who is 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...
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| 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...
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| Simon McCutcheon | Where the Wild Things Are | |||
| 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...
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| 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...
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| x Script supervisor | Haley McLane | Babylon 5: The Gathering |
A script supervisor (also called continuity supervisor or continuity) is a member of a film crew responsible for maintaining the motion picture's internal continuity and for recording the production unit's daily progress in shooting the film's...
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| 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.
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| x Location manager |
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Russell Boyd | Where the Wild Things Are |
The Location Manager is responsible for the finding and securing locations to be used and coordinating the logistics involved for the production to successfully complete its necessary work. They are also the face of the production to the community...
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| x Makeup artist |
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Marianne Cagle | Children of the Mist - The Lost Tribe |
A make-up artist or MUA (the standard abbreviation) is an artist who creates makeup and prosthetics for theatrical, television, film, fashion, magazines and other similar productions including all aspects of the modeling world. In some cases, the...
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| April Prior | Children of the Mist - The Lost Tribe | |||
| Marianne Cagle | Doomsday | |||
| x Stunt coordinator | Kerry Rossall | Babylon 5: The Gathering |
A stunt coordinator, usually an experienced stunt performer, is hired by a TV, film or theatre director or production company to arrange the casting (stunt players and stunt doubles) and performance of stunts for a film, television programme or a...
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| Spiro Razatos | Vantage Point | |||
| x Weapons master |
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The weapons master, sometimes credited as the armorer, weapons specialist, weapons handler, weapons wrangler, or weapons coordinator, is a film crew specialist that works with the property master, director, actors and script supervisor. The weapons...
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| x Perchman |
The French perchman is equivalent to the U.S. boom operator in film production, also called the sound assistant or boomer, but differs regarding attributions. The perchman is the production sound mixer's assistant and is in charge of the microphone...
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| x Storyboard artist |
Storyboard artist (sometimes referred as story artist) is a profession specialized in creating storyboards for advertising agencies and film productions.
A storyboard artist is able to visualize any stories using quick sketches on paper at any...
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| x Director of audiography |
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The Director of Audiography (DoA) , Director of Sound (DoS) , Audio Director (AuD) and, historically speaking, the Sound Director (SD) or Recording Director (RD) , is the head of the sound department and the person responsible for planning and...
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| x Creative Executive |
In film production, a creative executive (often called CE for short) is a low-level development executive tasked with reading scripts and finding source material which can be turned into motion picture content (feature films, television series,...
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| x Development Executive |
In film production, a development executive is in charge of reading scripts and finding source material which can be turned into feature films.
Like most corporations, there is a development hierarchy. As an example, a large production company or...
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| x Set Decorator | Denise Camargo | Vantage Point | ||
| Peter Foster | The Last Confession of Alexander Pearce | |||
| x Assistant Costume Designer | Marylin Fitoussi | Vantage Point | ||
| x Key Costumer | German Iucciolino | Vantage Point | ||
| x Department Head Makeup Artist | Eduardo Gómez Aguilera | Vantage Point | ||
| x Key Hair Stylist | Gerardo Perez Arreola | Vantage Point | ||
| Myke Michaels | Babylon 5: The Gathering | |||
| Paul Gooch | Alice in Wonderland | |||
| x Best Boy Electric | Antonio Sanchez | Vantage Point | ||
| Andrew | Voodoo Academy | |||
| x Key Grip | Jesus Rodriguez Barajas | Vantage Point | ||
| x Second Grip | Felipe Morales | Vantage Point | ||
| x Dolly Grip | Jesus Romero | Vantage Point | ||
| x Key Rigging Grip | Jesus Rodriguez Davalos | Vantage Point | ||
| x Key Makeup Artist | Sandra Migueli Lopez Soto | Vantage Point | ||
| Suzanne Sanders | Babylon 5: The Gathering | |||
| x Production Mixer | Nicolas Santiago Nuñez Rojo | Vantage Point | ||
| x Boom Operator | Ernesto Muñoz | Vantage Point | ||
| x Video Assist Operator | Carlos Silva | Vantage Point | ||
| x Special Effects Foreman | Alejandro Vazquez | Vantage Point | ||
| x Production Supervisor | Emmanuel Cabare | Vantage Point | ||
| x Production Coordinator | Sue-Allen Villalva | Vantage Point | ||
| Alyson Evans | Babylon 5: The Gathering | |||
| Hilton Howson | The Last Confession of Alexander Pearce | |||
