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So what would a three-lens kit look like?

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For full-frame 35mm, a common kit could be 24mm, 50mm, and 85mm.

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The Producer-Who is he/she?

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Financing -The executive producer. Picking a team (Director), other Producers, the production manager and staff, accounting Script: Buy it, or write it?

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What is the first most crucial step to making a film?

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Finding the funds.

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Producer

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The person who is responsible for all of the business aspects of making and releasing a film. Hires people.

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Director

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The person responsible for overseeing all aspects of the making of a film.

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Cinematographer

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The artist or technician responsible for the lighting of a shot and the quality of the photography.

Or director of photography (sometimes shortened to DP or DOP) is the chief over the camera crews working on a film, television production or other live action piece and is responsible for achieving artistic and technical decisions related to the image.

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Three Point Lighting

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This kind of lighting set-up consists of a key light, a fill light, and backlighting.

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Production Manager

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Organize the business, finance, and employment of production.

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Production Coordinator

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Serves under producer, production manager, and UPM to coordinate various groups and personnel that come together in filmmaking.

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Production Assistant

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The person who provides general assistance around the studio or production facility.

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Executive producer

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The person, or people, who provides the funding necessary to produce the program.
Oversees production of the producer on behalf of the studio, financiers, or distributors and ensure the film is on time and within budget.

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Gaffer

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The head of the Grip Department. They handle all support gear including camera support, rigging, and lighting.

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Director of Photography

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A cinematographer or director of photography is the chief over the camera and light crews working on a film and is responsible for making artistic and technical decisions related to the image.

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Assistant Director

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Responsibilities include tracking daily progress against the filming production schedule, arranging logistics, preparing daily call sheets, checking cast and crew, and maintaining order on the set. They also have to take care of the health and safety of the crew.

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1st AD

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responsible for scheduling the day-to-day shooting and “running” on-set operations, this person is also the designated legally responsible party for all on-set safety

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2nd AD

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Works with the 1st A.D. to accomplish their duties. The call sheets for each shooting day are created by the 2nd assistant director.

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Key Grip

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The “foreman” in charge of seeing that the grips have arranged everything the way the director wants

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Production Designer

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the artist who selects or designs the sets, settings, locations, and props seen in the film, in accordance with the film’s visual style

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art director

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builds the sets & directly overseas artists &craftspeople such as designers, graphic artists who assist in the development of production design

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Key Costumer

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assists costume designer, helps ensure wardrobe stays within budget oversees fittings

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Unit Production Manager

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The person who breaks down the script and handles much of the scheduling and detail work of planning and production.

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Best Boy

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First assistant foreman for gaffer or key grip

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Dolly Grip

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Member of the crew who pushes or pulls a crab dolly along the track during production.

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Line producer

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is the liaison between the studio or producer and the production manager, responsible for managing the production budget.

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Production assistant

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referred to as PAs, assist in the production office or in various departments with general tasks, such as assisting the first assistant director with set operations.

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Assistant production manager

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is the chief assistant to the production manager (PM) and carries out various jobs for the PM. Normally only big budget Hollywood feature films have an assistant PM.

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Production coordinator

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is the information nexus of the production, responsible for organizing all the logistics from hiring crew, renting equipment, and booking talent. The PC is an integral part of film production.

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Location manager

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Oversees the locations department and its staff, typically reporting directly to the production manager and/or assistant director (or even director and/or executive producer). Location manager is responsible for final clearing (or guaranteeing permission to use) a location for filming and must often assist production and finance departments in maintaining budget management regarding actual location/permit fees as well as labor costs to production for himself and the locations department at large.

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Location scout

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Does much of the actual research, footwork and photography to document location possibilities. Often the location manager will do some scouting himself, as well as the assistant location manager.

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Location production assistant

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This position exists generally on larger budget productions. The locations PA is the assistant who is almost never on-set, but instead is always propping a location or wrapping a location. That is, when a location requires several days of set up and breakdown prior and following the day(s) of filming. A location production assistant is what a set production assistant is in Canada.

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First assistant camera

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1st AC or focus puller, is responsible for keeping the camera in focus as it is shooting, as well as building the camera at the beginning of the day and taking it apart at the end.

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Film loader

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motion picture film from the manufacturer’s light-tight canisters to the camera magazines for attachment to the camera by the 2nd AC.

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Set designer

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is the draftsman, often an architect, who realizes the structures or interior spaces called for by the production designer.

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Set decorator

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is in charge of the decorating of a film set, which includes the furnishings and all the other objects that will be seen in the film.

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Lead man

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is the foreman of the set dressing crew, often referred to as the swing gang. He or she also assists the set decorator.

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The casting director, Choosing lead characters (male/female), Chemistry between leads, Choosing supporting roles, Table reads, Rehearsals, Special needs certifications, children, and animals are all aspects of the _________ process

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Casting

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Sec. 253-Minors under the age of __ must have permit issued by state DOL to participate in employment in the entertainment industry. Title 26 Sec. 773 to 775 - Minors under age __ working as theatrical or film actors are exempt from the child labor law except that they must have work permits.

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16

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There are a slew of other regulations outlining what film crews can and can’t do with a baby. In California, infants under 6 months are allowed on-set for ____ hours a day, but their actual workday can’t exceed ___ minutes.

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2 hrs

20 mins

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What is Coogans law?

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Charlie Chaplin’s film classic The Kid (1921) made him one of the first child stars in film history. He later sued his mother and stepfather over his squandered film earnings and provoked California to enact the first known legal protection for the earnings of child performers, widely known as the Coogan Act.

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Who is responsible for making the shot list?

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Cinematographer/DP

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The role of an ________________ a film includes tracking daily progress against the filming production schedule, arranging logistics, preparing daily call sheets and production reports, wrangling cast and crew, and maintaining order on the set. They also arrange resources for the health and safety of the crew.

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Assistant Director

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First Assistant Director (1st. AD) Second Assistant Director (2nd. AD) Additional Second Assistant Director (2nd-2nd. AD) DGA Trainee Key Production Assistant (Key PA) On-Set Production Assistants (Set PA) Office Production Assistants (Office PA) All Others (Usually by Departments) make up the______________

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Assistant directors team

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The two primary criteria for organizing your production schedule are: ___________ or _____________

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actor availability, or locations availability.

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The ______________ document uses a method designed to track how often an actor, location, or piece of equipment is used on a film. It notes when an asset begins work on a film, while it is working, and when it finishes service. This is valuable information when calculating a budget. It is also critical information when preparing a production schedule, or call sheet.

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Day out of days

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Production managers (UPM) use this info to calculate the initial budget for a feature film, and for hot budgets that occur throughout principal photography.

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Final audit for Day Out of Days. These numbers are used to calculate the run- of-show costs per piece of gear.

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__________ is an entertainment guild that represents the interests of film and television directors in the United States motion picture industry and abroad.

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Directors Guild of America DGA

47
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___________ American Federation of Television and Radio Artists is an American labor union representing approximately 160,000 film and television actors, journalists, radio personalities, recording artists, singers, voice actors, and other media professionals worldwide.

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Screen Actors guild (SAG)

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International Alliance of Theatrical and Studio Employees I.A.T.S.E. and National Association of Broadcast Employees and Technicians N.A.B.E.T. are examples of what?

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Labor Union

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The ________________ is a labor union in the United States and Canada. Formed in 1903 by the merger of The Team Drivers International Union and The Teamsters National Union,

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The international brotherhood of teamsters (IBT)

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Employed of record – payroll company, Hire status – either daily or weekly, Show/Studio number, Position, Guild affiliation, Credit (if any) – how it should read, emergency contact info, Basic employee info (name, address, etc.) are aspects of the ______________

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Basic employment contract with production.

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