A film crew is a group of people, hired by a production company, for the purpose of producing a film or motion picture. The crew is distinguished from the cast, as the cast are understood to be the ac
One part of the film crew (right), filming a member of the cast (left).
Film director Dorothy Arzner had a successful career that spanned the silent film era into talkies. She started as a film editor and designed the first boom microphone.
A camera operator filming a scene from the Hollywood film Julius Caesar (1950), starring Charlton Heston.
Production of the television film Sherlock Holmes and the Case of the Silk Stocking (2004) at Somerset House in London.
A film director or filmmaker is a person who controls a film's artistic and dramatic aspects and visualizes the screenplay while guiding the film crew and actors in the fulfillment of that vision. The
Film crew
…many film crew positions are associated with only one or two of the phases. Distinctions are also made between above-the-line personnel (such as the director, screenwriter, and producers) who begin their involvement during the project's development stage, and the below-the-line technical crew involved only…
Film director John Badham during filming of The Godchild in 1974
The film director gives last minute direction to the cast and crew, while filming the historical drama Sherlock Holmes and the Case of the Silk Stocking on location in London.
American director Steven Spielberg with Sri Lankan filmmaker Chandran Rutnam in Sri Lanka
The main competition jury at the 2014 Cannes Film Festival (Left to right: Gael García Bernal, Jia Zhangke, Sofia Coppola, Jane Campion, Jeon Do-yeon, Nicolas Winding Refn, Leila Hatami, Carole Bouquet, and Willem Dafoe