Media Job Roles

Producer - A film producer oversees and delivers a film project to all relevant parties while preserving the key concepts of the film & marketing and distribution processes, and the budget holder.

Director - A film director is a person who directs the actors and film crew in filmmaking. They control a film's artistic and dramatic aspects, while guiding the team, responsible for everything you see and hear.

Director of photography - A cinematographer is one photographing with a motion picture camera the title is generally equivalent to director of photography, supervises the camera men.

Film Editor - Film editing is part of the creative post-production process of filmmaking. It involves the selection and combining of shots into sequences, and ultimately creating a finished motion picture. The editor basically takes all the raw footage and makes the necessary changes to the shots to make it into a full length film.

Production manager - The Production Manager supervises the physical aspects of the production (not the creative aspects) including personnel, technology, budget, and scheduling.

First Assistant Director - The First Assistant Director assists the Production Manager and Director. The ultimate aim of any 1st assisstant director is to ensure the film comes in on schedule while maintaining a working environment in which the Director, actors and crew can be focused on their work.

Sound operator – Operate and maintain technical equipment to amplify and enhance, record, mix or reproduce sound for the film.

Lighting director – The lighting director picks the best places for the lgihts to be set up when filming. They choose the position that would be best for each shot and makes sure everywhere is lit up but still seems to be natural light.

Writer – The writer has to be imaginative, fluent on how he portrays his ideas, and also has to be entertaining in the way they write.