Many of us love to watch movies. When sometimes absolutely unimaginable things happen on the screen, you admire not only the special effects, costumes and the ingenious plot, but also the titanic work that stands behind the beautiful picture.
Often the viewer is interested in how the film was shot, how the auditions were held, the scenery looked, who is the main thing on the set. Today we will unveil the curtain of “cinematic mystery” and tell how the production of the film proceeds.
Camera crews
All members of the crew are one big family. And the number of people in this family depends on the complexity of the film. All participants are divided into groups that are either part of the main structure, or attached. The main division is in the following categories:
- Creative Group.
- Administration.
- Attached structure.
The team directly involved in creative work consists of a director (in large-scale films - directors), screenwriters, actors and various consultants who help in film production. Actors are divided into the main cast and extras. The stunt group and operators belong to the same category.
The administration is not involved in the artistic component, but regulates its work. It includes producers, set managers and the director of the film.
Such workshops can be added to the attached composition: dressing room, dressing room, sound, musical, lighting, installation and technical.
Very often, doctors, security guards, handymen, cooks and drivers work on the set under the contract.
Director - all over the head
The key link on the set is, of course, the director. He organizes everything: the work of operators and actors, camera angles and performances. In the end, on the screen we see exactly the director's vision of the picture. And 90% of the box-office success of the film and its cultural value depend solely on the work of the director.
About the importance of actors
In addition to the breathtaking scenery in the background, high-quality scenery and other things, first of all, we pay attention to the actors. They are the main visual, emotional and narrative component of film history. Many masterpieces of cinema were shot with a small budget, indoors, with almost no scenery, but the charisma and talent of the actors made these films brilliant.
Working with actors is not only a movie set, it all starts with casting. It depends on a skillfully selected “caste” which characters we will eventually see on the screen. And it’s not even a matter of appearance (make-up artists and dressers can do it skillfully), but of the professionalism and style of the artist’s playing.
About special effects
Already in the second half of the twentieth century, the first high-quality and realistic special effects began to be added to the cinema. And thirty years later, at the dawn of the twenty-first century, the share of special effects in the Hollywood cinema market increased significantly. Now, not a single massive and popular masterpiece can do without computer graphics. How does the movie set look like for creating special effects? Photo can be seen below.
Who can’t do without?
The most important components on the set have already been said. But that is not all. Many are interested in what kind of professions people need on the set. We will talk about the most sought after.
- Make-up artists. Their task is to mask the imperfections in the appearance of the actors, transform them or make artistic makeup that will change the artist beyond recognition.
- Operators Under the strict guidance of the director, the operators film scenes. A film set for them is a location that needs to be removed from the required angle.
- Decorators. Sometimes decorators face simple tasks, sometimes complex ones. In some cases, they act as designers of the pavilion for shooting, and sometimes they have to rebuild absolutely incredible scenery from scratch.
- Costumers. Will the character look stylish and organic, directly depends on the costumers.
- Stuntmen. If action, tricks and pursuit are expected on the screen, then you can’t do without a stuntman. Computer graphics cannot create a realistic and lively fight, as martial arts professionals and techniques can do this.
- Understudies. Scenes, which for some reason the main actor cannot play, are played by understudies. Choose them by their external similarity with the character.