What is an Assistant Production Buyer?
Any production needs plenty of props, materials and supplies to decorate sets and locations. All of these items need to be recorded in a database which is needed both for budgeting and for practical reasons – for example, if the production needs to buy the same items again. Assistant Production Buyers are responsible for buying the supplies and also updating the aforementioned databases.
What is an Audio/Dubbing Assistant?
During the Audio Post Production, Sound Editors need a huge quantity of sound effects, recordings, voiceover and music tracks to compose a film’s soundtrack. Audio/Dubbing Assistants help them source and sort these materials.
What is a Colourist?
Film or TV productions are usually filmed in many different locations, times and weather conditions. Because of this, many shots differ in brightness, white balance, saturation etc. The Colourist edits the different shots until they all match, and they also craft the final look of a film, agreeing with clients on the right tones.
What is an Agent?
Performers and creatives across the film and tv industry often get job contracts which last only for a single production. For this reason, they have to be constantly connected with the industry’s decision makers, in order to be cast in new roles or hired for new jobs.
Agents represent the mediator in this connection. Staying in touch with producers and recruiters in the industry, they provide their client with the appropriate deals and offers.
What is an Assistant Choreographer?
When film, TV or theatrical productions involve dance routines, one or more Choreographers will work on designing them. They then need to train the dancers or actors to perform these movements. In bigger productions the training is carried out by Assistant Choreographers, who also sometimes help with the movement design.
What is a Film/TV Accounts Trainee?
It is essential, in the Film and TV industries, to keep track of any income and expenses in order to make sure that the production stays within the set budget, and ultimately to make predictions about its economic success. The Film/Tv Accounts Trainee supports the accountancy team in making and recording payments.
What is a Costume Designer?
Any film, TV or Video production has its specific aesthetics and particular looks that comply with the setting of the story being represented. Along with the scenography, and the appearance of the actors, their clothes must be spot on as well.
Here is where Costume Designers play their role, designing, creating, buying or hiring all costumes to be worn by the cast.
What is a Screenwriter?
Every film or TV show needs a script, not only for the actors to read and memorise their lines, but for the whole production to have a reference and a complete picture of the story which is being represented. It’s the Screenwriter’s job to develop the story and write the script.
What is a Lighting Technician?
In any production environment (Television, Film, Commercials or Video), the creative vision of the Director and the Director of Photography has to be translated into reality with a set of technical equipment. In order to make that possible, Lighting Technicians, along with the electrical department, have to combine an artistic eye with technical knowledge and expertise.
What is an Animator?
While most of an Animator’s job today consists of working with design or 3D software which requires specific technical expertise, producing animation remains mainly a creative job, involving talent, inspiration and creativity.