As far as i can tell, the director of photography is kind of like the big leader of camera men and all things visual in relation to the film, he is one of the heads of department which just immediately sounds important. they work very closely with the director, gaffer (the light guy) and the sound recordist.
Duties
- The director of photography is supposed to meet with the director of a film so that they can discuss the visual style of the film
- its then their duty to conduct research and preparation and will go look out at locations so thay can properly start forming a list of required equipment,
- this list consists of things like camera’s and their equipment, lighting equipment and other things
- another one of the duties of the director of photography is to oversee the camera crew
Responsibilities
- one of their responsibilities is to make sure that they are getting the right shots in order to bring the directors vision alive.
- another responsibility of the director of photography is to read the script and discover the perfect visualisation for the script he is bringing to visualisation.
- also based on the scenery that the director of photography will have had to have been shown or told about, it is their responsibility to visualise, and develop a colour pallet for the film that he perceives as fitting or suitable
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