1. Alyx Entwistle
IG3 Task 1
PRODUCTION ROLES
CAMERA MAN
I am the camera man for the film.
When making a film, the camera man is called a cinematographer. They generally work
closely with the director, the actors, the production crew and the director of
photography.
One of the most respected cinematographers ever is Conrad L. Hall. He won 3 Oscar’s
and was nominated for 7 more during his lifetime. He first received an Oscar for his
work in the 1969 film ‘Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid’. His second Oscar came a
whole 30 years later, for ‘American Beauty’. He received his third and final Oscar
posthumously for the 2002 film ‘Road to Perdition’.
DIRECTOR
Adam Foster is the director of our film.
The director is in control of a film's artistic and dramatic aspects, while guiding the
technical crew and actors.
After the actors, the directors are generally seen as the most known and respected in
the film industry.
There are many great directors which make it impossible to point out the best - so I am
going to use my personal favourite, Martin Scorcese.

2. Alyx Entwistle
IG3 Task 1
Scorsese’s films are known for his heavy use of stories involving people of Italian-
American origin, usually involving organised crime.
He has worked on a total of 23 films, directing all but one of them (1991’s ‘The Grifter’,
where he served as producer.) He has served as a writer or a producer on many other
films too.
His most famous films are;
- Mean Streets (1973)
-Taxi Driver (1976)
-Raging Bull (1980)
-Goodfellas (1990)
-Casino (1995)
-Gangs Of New York (2002)
-The Aviator (2004)
-The Departed (2006)
-Shutter Island (2010)
-Hugo (2011)
He has won one Oscar for ‘The Departed’ and has been nominated a further 5 times.
SOUND RECORDIST
Luke Finlay will be in control of recording the audio for the film.
The sound recordist is the person who records the audio for a scene, like the actor’s
dialogue or any diagetic sound.
Although the camera will pick up sound, its quality is no way near that of a sound
recorder. By using the audio recorded by the sound recordist, the editors can then place
the audio into the scene manually. So if a person is talking, you will place the sound into
the clip so it moves in time with the actor’s mouth.

3. Alyx Entwistle
IG3 Task 1
PRODUCTION RUNNER
James Fox will be the production runner for our film. He will also play the role of
‘James’.
The production runner is the person responsible for fetching and doing most of the odd-
jobs of a production. Their role is generally to support anyone on set in any way
possible, to make them feel completely comfortable. A lot of people in the industry start
out as runners before they have learned enough to assume more responsibility and
‘climb the ladder’.
An example of this is the comic book writer Stan Lee. Although not on a movie
production, this example is still a good one as it shows how you can go from ‘errand boy’
to something great. Lee is probably the most famous comic book writer ever, but when
he started working at Timely Comics in 1939, he was the runner. He said in an interview
that he “had to make sure the inkwells were filled” and “went down and got them their
lunch, I did proofreading, I erased the pencils from the finished pages for them.”
He was offered the chance to text fill a Captain America strip. After a few years of this,
he became the interim editor after the editor had quit at the age of just 19. He soon
became full time editor and ended up becoming the President and Chairman of the
company (now named Marvel).