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Film job list
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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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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 actor who appear in front of the camera or provide voices for characters in the film. Crew...
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| 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 effect 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 | ||||
| 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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| Cinematographer | Profession |
A cinematographer is one photographing with a motion picture camera (the art and science of which is known as cinematography) also directs movies. The title is generally equivalent to director of photography' (DP or DoP), used to designate a chief...
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| Production sound mixer | Person | 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...
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| Adrian Medhurst | The Last Confession of Alexander Pearce | ||||
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A film producer is a person who creates the conditions for making movies. The producer initiates, coordinates, supervises and controls matters such as fundraising, hiring key personnel, and arranging for distributors. The producer is involved...
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| 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...
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| 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 | ||||
| Lighting technician | Profession |
Lighting technicians are involved with setting up and controlling lighting equipment 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...
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| 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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| Camera operator | 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...
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| 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 grip, crane operators, camera car operators, etc. The key grip is...
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| 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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| 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...
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| James Currie | The Last Confession of Alexander Pearce | ||||
| Tom Heuzenroeder | The Last Confession of Alexander Pearce | ||||
| 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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| 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...
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| 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 magazine, operating the clapperboard (slate) at the beginning of each take, marking...
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| 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...
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| John Iacovelli | Babylon 5: The Gathering | ||||
| Felicity Abbott | The Last Confession of Alexander Pearce | ||||
| Body double |
A body double is a general term for someone who substitutes for the credit actor of a character in any recorded visual medium, whether video or film. The term is most commonly used in the context of head-to-toe (or nearly) shot involving nudity. For...
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| 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...
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| 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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| 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...
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| 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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| 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,...
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| 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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| 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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| 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 prop needed for a production. The property master also works with...
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| Paul Stewart | The Last Confession of Alexander Pearce | ||||
| 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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| Leadman |
A leadman is an art department member who is in responsible for the swing gang and/or the set dresser 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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| Set decorator | Peter Young | Batman |
A set decorator is in charge of the set dressing on a film set, which includes the furnishing, 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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| 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 | ||||
| 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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| 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...
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| 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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| Location manager |
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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...
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| Makeup artist |
A make-up artist or MUA 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 title of Make-up Artist can...
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| Stunt coordinator | Profession | 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 and performance of stunt for a film, tape, or a live audience. In many cases, the stunt coordinator...
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| Weapons master |
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, actor and script supervisor. The weapons...
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| 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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| Storyboard artist |
Storyboard artist (sometimes referred as story artist) is a profession specialized in creating storyboard for advertising agencies and film production.
A storyboard artist is able to visualize any stories using quick sketches on paper at any moment...
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| Director of audiography |
The Director of Audiography (DOA) or Sound Director (SD) or Audio Director (AuD) is the designer and manager responsible for the audio experience in a filmmaking. The responsibilities range from the sound concept, design, planning and initial...
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| 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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| 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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| Stunt Coordinator | Spiro Razatos | Vantage Point | |||
| Set Decorator | Denise Camargo | Vantage Point | |||
| Peter Foster | The Last Confession of Alexander Pearce | ||||
| Script Supervisor | Maury Carvajal | Vantage Point | |||
| Assistant Costume Designer | Marylin Fitoussi | Vantage Point | |||
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