Production roles - Dr Who

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Production roles - Dr Who


  • Grip - Technicians, work with the camera department to provide camera support. A Grip will build and maintain all the equipment which is needed to support a camera and ensure it moves smoothly, this can include; tripod, dollies, tracks and cranes

  • Gaffer - Head electrician, responsible for lighting plans under the direction of the Director of photography 

  • Best boy - Gaffer's assistant 

  • Set director - Head of set decoration, responsible for selecting, designing, fabricating and sourcing the 'set dressing' elements of a set 

  • Prop master - Provides the elements handled by the actors 

  • Petty Cash buyer - Assist the buyer and assistant buyer with the locating, purchasing or hiring of small items 

  • Draughts person - Makes technical drawings/plans of machinery, buildings, electronics etc 

  • Prop chargehand - receives props from the props storeman and then allocate his or her team with a certain number of props to install around a set or location.

  • Concept/graphics artist - will create illustrations used to convey an idea for films before it is put into the final product 

  • Focus pullers - Assistant to cameraman, responsible for keeping lens focused during filming

Comments

  1. JCoSS Media DeptOctober 15, 2018 at 4:05 AM

    Although you have completed the task, it's not been done very creatively! It was expected that you were to create a fact file...maybe using Canva?

    You need to be aware of different production roles/what they do as it has been on the exam paper for the past few years.

    Miss Crader

    ReplyDelete
  2. Poppy Gordon Camb Tech 2017October 17, 2018 at 1:12 AM

    corrections made

    ReplyDelete

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