2. The film industry divides itself into five sectors:
๏ Development - the writing, packaging and
financing of film ideas and scripts.
๏ Production - the process of setting up and
shooting every scene in a film.
๏ Post Production - where all these shots are
assembled, treated and mixed into a finished
product.
๏ Distribution - the process of selling this product
to audiences, via the cinemas, retailers and
rental firms.
๏ Exhibition - the cinemas which screen the film
for the general public.
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3. Responsibility:
The responsibility of the director of the movie
is to capture the vision of the movie on
record and to be on the set of the movie at
all shooting hours
Pay: Directors usually range from 1mil to 10
mil for the high end ones like Nolan,
Spielberg ETC. It varies depending on how
big the production and buudget
4. The business of filmmaking starts and finishes
with the work of the Producers and of the
Production Department. Without the hard
efforts of these intelligent individuals there
would be no films and no film industry.
Pay: Producers usually get 1-5 m but can get
more if they're also the director or they are
the writer
5. The writer is the person who writes the scripts
of each and every actor. They even
sometimes have to create the scenarioโs and
scenes, which the director pursues.
Pay: Writers will get anywhere from 250k for
first timers to 5 mil for experienced writers
like Khruger or Sorkin
6. The camera mans job is to capture every single
shot, to make the movie look like what the
directors vision was. The camera ma also has
the responsibility to make all the different
shot types compatible so the editors can
work on it.
Pay: camera men get paid from 42,000 to 2.5
million (depending on position ; head,
assistant, average worker)
7. The Lighting department plays a crucial role in
most film crews. Humanity lives by the light
of the sun and, when it sets, artificial lights
of different kinds and intensities are
required.
Pay: the lighting crew get paid around ยฃ45,000
per head on a normal production, but get
paid up to 1-2 million if it is a bigger
production.
