This document discusses different types of contributors that may be involved in film pre-production, including specialists, experts, talent, and the public. Specialists are people with advanced skills hired for technical operations, training, or key production roles. Experts, such as historians, are recruited during research to ensure accuracy. Talent refers to actors and performers. The public may also contribute by allowing filming locations or appearing in crowd scenes. Biographies are often included in press materials to highlight the credentials of key contributors like specialists, experts, producers, and actors.

1. UNIT 1
PREPRODUCTION TECHNIQUES FOR THE
CREATIVE MEDIA INDUSTRIES

2. TASK 1
RESEARCH PRE-PRODUCTION TECHNIQUES

3. CONTRIBUTORS
Type
• specialists
• experts
• talent
• public

4. CONTRIBUTORS
Type
• Specialists
• Specialists are people with advanced skillsets in particular
areas.
• Specialists are often hired:
o To oversee highly technical operations
o To train, where specialised skills need to be learned in
short periods of time
o To undertake key production roles

5. CONTRIBUTORS
Type
• Technical Specialists
 In a aerial dogfight involved two fighter planes, specialist
pilots would be recruited to fly the planes.

6. CONTRIBUTORS
Type
• Specialist trainers
o In a Kung fu fight scene a martial arts specialist might be
recruited to train actors who have to perform the fight
moves in the scene.

7. CONTRIBUTORS
Type
• Production specialists
o Occasionally, a third party specialist may be recruited into
a film department to handle particular types of production
work requiring highly specialised technical skills.
o Example
o A drone camera operator might be hired to record aerial
footage of a location to establish a setting.

8. CONTRIBUTORS
Type
• Experts
• During the research and development stages of a project
many producers will recruit experts in particular fields to
make sure that representations of individuals, types,
groups, places, activities or events are constructed in a
way that is authentic and accurate.

9. CONTRIBUTORS
Type
• Experts
• Example: war film
• The producer of a war film may recruit historical
researchers to make sure that recreations of past events
remain within the boundaries of what is generally
accepted to be historically correct according to the
majority of academics in the field.

10. CONTRIBUTORS
Type
• Talent
• “Talent” on a film are the specialist performers – actors,
dancers, singers.
• The word talent is often used to refer to A list celebrities
and those performers who have been cast in principle
roles.
• Their achievements and pedigree naturally stem from
having developed and honed highly specialist
performance skills.

11. CONTRIBUTORS
Type
• Public
• Occasionally, public bodies and the public itself will be
invited to play a key role in a production.
• A city may enable production by allowing or supporting
filming in particular locations within its limits.
• The public may be asked to congregate for crowd scenes.

12. CONTRIBUTORS
Contributor biographies
A contributor biography is very much as it sounds
Experts, specialists and A list talent who undertake key roles or
perform key roles on a production will usually be represented by
a bio in any marketing for the film, such as press kits.
Key above-the-line production personnel will also been given
biographies in a press folder:
→ Producer
→ Director
→ Screenwriter
→ Principal Actors