The document provides information on various job roles in the film industry, including producer, executive producer, script editor, assistant location manager, director of photography, production sound mixer, director, producer, and editor. It discusses the responsibilities and roles of each job in different phases of film production such as pre-production, production, and post-production. It also provides examples of individuals who have worked in these roles, such as Charlie Chaplin as a director and Hugh Jackman as a producer.

1. -Job Roles in the Film Industry Research
-By CanelOsman 12ACL 

2. KEY CREATIVE TEAM
Producer
The Producer's managerial job role is to initiate, coordinate, supervise, and controls
matters of the film production. Such as raising funding, hiring key
personnel, contacting and arranging for distributors. The Producer is involved
throughout all phases of the film process from development to completion of a
project. A producer is responsible for all the aspects of a film's production.
Producers tend to be the first person to become involved in a project, even before
the writer. Producers have overall control on every aspect of a film's production.
They bring together and approve the selection of the whole production team.
Their primary responsibility is to look after the environment in which the creative
talents of the cast and crew are part of. The producer deals with all the practical
and political aspects of keeping a project running smoothly, so that the director
and the rest of the team can concentrate on the creative aspects. Producers are
therefore ultimately accountable for the success of the finished film.

3. PRODUCTION DEPARTMENT
Executive Producer
Executive Producers are responsible for the overall quality of the
production. An executive producer tends to invest in the project
or someone who has helped with the funding of the project. The
role of the Executive Producer is to supervise the work of the
producer on behalf of the studio. Executive producer’s job is
technical as they work along side with the financers and
distributers to ensure things run smoothly and that the film is
completed on time, within the budget. Also that the production is
up to technical standards. An Executive Producer is part of all the
production stages as they need to monitor the production
throughout to ensure everything is running on time and on
budget.

4. SCRIPT DEPARTMENT
Script Editor
Script Editor’s job is to provide a critical overview of the screenwriting process. They
use analytical skills to help the screenwriter with problems and help to
strengthen and develop the screenplay. The Script Writer’s job role is creative
as they have to edit and improve the script and understand what works well
with the storyline and the character’s dialogue. Script Editors tend to work in
the pre production process so the script is finalized and ready to hand to the
cast and everyone else in the production. However if a problem occurs with the
script the script will be changed during the production process if necessary.
The Script Editor has many responsibilities, which include casting new script
writers, developing storyline and film ideas with writers, ensuring that scripts
are suitable for the production. The script editor will work closely with the writer
at each draft of their script, giving the writer feedback on the quality of their
work, suggesting improvements that can be made whilst also ensuring that
practical issues like show continuity and correct running time are adhered to.
Unlike the writers, script editors will usually be full-time members of the
production team, working closely with the producer

5. LOCATION DEPARTMENT
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An Assistant Location Manager assists the location manager and is on-set before, during, and
after the filming process, which means they tend to part of the whole production process. An
Assistant Location Manger’s general responsibilities include arriving first at the location to
allow the set dressers onto the set. Assistant Location Managers have to maintain the
cleanliness of the location areas during filming and fielding complaints from neighbors.
Assistant Location Managers work along side with Location Managers, Unit Managers and

6. CAMERA DEPARTMENT
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The Director of Photography (also known as the Cinematographer) is the head
of the camera and lighting department of the film. The Director of
Photography makes the main decisions regarding the lighting and framing of
scenes with the film's director. Directors of Photography are key Heads of
Department on film productions. A DoP's job role is one of the major creative
roles. They are specifically requested by the Director, and must be approved
by the all the financiers, and the studio. During the production process a
Director of Photography work closely with the Director and Production
Designer to ensure the film has the visual aspect that works best for the
production. The Director's of Photography reads the screenplay to
understand what they would need to do in order to get the visual aspects to
the Director's standards. To do this they meet with the Director to discuss the
visual style of the film. A Director of Photography are responsible for
preparing a list of all required camera equipment, including lights, film stock,
camera, cranes and all accessories etc.

7. SOUND DEPARTMENT
 Production Sound Mixer (Sound Recordist) The production sound
mixer is head of the sound department on set, they are responsible
for recording all sound during the filming process. Their job involves
the choice of microphones, operation of a sound recording device. As
they are the head of the Sound Department, the Sound Mixer is also
accountable for recording all the sound during filming. A Production
Sound Mixer meet with the Director before filming to understand the
director's vision and the budget. The Sound Mixer also is responsible
to hire a Boom Operator and Sound Assistants. The Sound
Recoridist's other duties consist of planning the technical setup for
the location or set, to selecting and arranging microphones, to
ordering and hiring equipment, to troubleshooting as the filming
develops, to operating the mixing desk. The Production Sound Mixer
is hired during pre-production. As their job role is to record all sound
during the filming process, their job is a production one.

8. Research of Job Roles in the Film Industry
Pre-Production Job Role
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In the film industry an example of a job role in a film's pre-production is the
director. Charlie Chaplin as well as being a well known actor, he was also known
as a successful director. Before Chaplin's notable success on the big screen he
worked with a children's dance troupe. Chaplin's character "The Tramp" relied
on pantomime and quirky movements to become an iconic comical figure of
the silent-film era. Chaplin then went on to become a director, making films like
The Kid, City Lights, Twenty Minutes of Love and Modern Times and many
others. Charlie Chaplin after his acting debut he realized that wanted the films
the he starred in to be done in his own visual creation. In an interview Chaplin
states "The directors I worked with did not appreciate my telling them how to
do their jobs. (rolls eyes). So I asked Sennett if I could direct a picture. My
timing was perfect since his distributors were clamoring for more hilarious
Chaplin film shorts.”.
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By researching David O Russell and Charlie Chaplin who are two different
director's of different time and genre enabled me to understand this job role in
the film industry more carefully. I was able to understand how difficult it can be
to become a director. Even though both directors are from different film era's,
director's in the film industry still do the same things. Such as working long
hours, working throughout the whole production process to organizing and
planning the film set.

9. Research of Job Roles in the Film Industry
Production Job Role
gh Jackman is a well known Actor but is also known for his notable work as a producer. After
Hugh Jackman graduated, he pursued drama at the Western Australian Academy of
Performing Arts, immediately afterhe was offered a starring role in the ABC-TV prison
drama Correlli (1995) This lead to rising success to Jackman producing several films such as
The Wolverine, X-Men Origins: Wolverine, Deception and An Aussie Goes Bolly. In particular
Hugh Jackman’s production of The Wolverine was one of his most favorable. In an
interview discussing about his film The Wolverine Jackman stated “ My enthusiasm for this
was massive. My desire to make a movie that is really central to the character that had
been set up in the comic book” As well as being the main role Jackman appears to have a
passion for the character Wolverine, and wants to bring him to life by not only portraying
Wolverine but being in control as a producer to ensure this.
By doing research on Hugh Jackman I was able to discover how much determination and
passion you must have for a production for a producer to do their job to the best of their
ability. As Hugh Jackman has a personal connection with his most notable role as
Wolverine, this made me realize how personal a film production can be to a producer. I also
realized that having years of experience with a particular film franchise can help with
creating the vision of the film to match standards. Especially if in this case a film is based on
a popular comic book.

10. Research of Job Roles in the Film Industry
Post-Production Job Role
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Tim Squyres an American film editor who is known for his films such as Life of Pi, Taking
Woodstock, Rachel Getting Married, The Inner Life of Martin Frost, Lust, Medium (TV Series)
and Hulk.As a teenager, Academy Award-nominated editor Tim Squyres originally wanted to
become an astronomer. Squyres began as an undergraduate physics major at New York's Cornell
University in 1977. Squyres eventually abandoned physics for psychology, but it was an introductory
film course that stirred his true ambition. Squyres eventually became a teaching assistant for the
school's filmmaking course. He use to edit student films at New York University. Tim's first feature
film came in 1987 when he worked as supervising sound editor on YurekBogayevicz's Anna. Which
lead him to do more sound editing work. In 1991, Squyres doubled as supervising sound editor and
assistant editor on Nancy Sovaca's Dog Fight, starring River Phoenix and Lili Taylor. Eventually this
lead him to do more successful films such as Life of Pi and Hulk.
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By studying into Tim Squyres’ job role in the industry this enabled me to understand how much of a
creative job role editing is. As an editor’s job role helps to determine the quality of the final project
the pressure as an editor gets to achieve a high standard edit is immense. Also by researching into
different job roles in film as well as the Editor, I’ve learned how difficult it can be to become
successful in the film industry and how hard it can be to get work. A final thing I learned about
researching into an editor’s job role is that everything needs a lot of preparation and planning
beforehand. Working on schedule with a budget can be difficult to keep on track, especially so in a
competitive profession like film. This applies for most of the job roles in the film industry as well as
the job of an Editor.