roles

Key roles on-set department

Development department

Director

Executive producer

Screenwriter

Director

Responsibilities

• Meet producers to plan filming schedules and resources
• Develop scirpits or ideas for programmes
• Develop storyboards
• Decide how the productions should look and where it should be filmed
• Hire cast and crew
• Explain technical requirements to different teams
• Direct actors on set or location

What do they do?

Guiding and managing the actors and film crew, interpretating scripts, and ensuring the visual storytelling aligns with the desired narrative style

Executive producer

Responsibility

They pitch ideas to the TV commissioners and deal with the legal, financial, and marketing aspects

What they do?

They are the spokesperson for the production and have the final say

Screenwriter

Responsibilities

• Comes up with theme and ideas
• researrch background material
• develop plots and chatacters
• lay out the screenplay to an agreed format
• prepare short summaries of your ideas
• sell your ideas or pitch to producers
• get feedback on your work from producers or script editors

What do they do?

Creates or adapts a story into a script for the entertainment industry

Production management department

Finance controller

Production coordinator

Line producer

Finance controller

Responsibilities

• Ensuring accuracy of financial statements
• Overseeing all financial planning and analysis
• Forecasting future peformances
• Recommending changes to improve financial peformance
• Utilising updated technologies for their job

What they do?

Make sure the film is completed within budget and the money is spent properly

Production coordinator

Responsibilities

• Preparing
• Updating and distributing crew lists
• Daily progress reports
• Script changes

What they do?

Ensures that product development goals, milestones, budgets, and timelines are met accurately executed according to product manager's development plans

Line producer

Responsibilities

• Human resources
• Handling any problems

What do they do?

Responsible for human resources and handling any problems that come up during production

Craft department

Hair and makeup designer

Set decorator

Costume designer

Set decorator

Responsibilities?

• Create the background of the action
• Explaining the context
• Adding mood and visual interest as the drama unfolds

What they do?

Prepare and apply paint, wallpaper and other finishes to surfaces, and inside out

Hair and makeup design

Responsibilities

• Apply makeup
• Wash
• Cut
• Blow-dry
• Style
• Set hair
• Apply products

What do they do?

Create character designs based on the productions setting

Costume designer

Responsibilities

• Change costume team
• Budget
• Time frame

What do they do?

Create clothes for characters that, on the one hand, reflect the ideas and goals of the play

Technical departments

Director of photography

Sound mixer

The grip

Sound mixer

Responsibilities

Head up the department responsible for all the sound record during filming

What do they do?

The leader of the production sound crew, responsible for recording high-quality audio on set and location for film and television productions.

Director of photography

Responsibilities

Manage all aspects of filming, sometimes operating a camera

What do they do?

Estsblishes the overall visual style of the production and understands its creative vision in order to lead the photography sessions

The grip

Responsibilities

Build and maintain all the equipment that supports cameras

What do they do?

Sets up, operates and maintains the rigging and equipment that supports the camera