Job Roles

Set Design

• Furnish a film set, excluding structural.
• Props: Action props, Pro props.
• Links to Pre-Production.

Key skills - attention to detail and historic knowledge for different set designs. Contacts for prop hire companies and warehouses.

Special Effects

• 2 types - Visual FX Editor and Special FX Co-ordinator. 
• VFX Editor - create special effects, animation and do visual clean-up for feature films and commercial.
• Special FX Co-ordinator - more hands on and used in higher budgeted films. Working with stunt-doubles or the actors doing their own acts and create the explosions, natural disasters, or general destruction that the Director wants.

Director

• Either commissions a script or writes one themselves.
• Always has a vision of the finished film.
• Pre-production rehearsals to check that the camera work is correct.
• High experience needed.

Camera Operator

• Told what to do by the Director.
• Begins at the end of Pre-Production.
• Decide where the best place is to position the camera for each shot.
• Start as a camera trainee/runner.
• Higher levels with a variety of cameras.

Storyboard Artist

• Put together a visual script for the Director and Camera crew.
• Translates screenplays or sequences into a series of illustrations.
• Create storyboards for the action and CGI scenes so that it is carefully planned.