COMP

• Story familiarization


  Actors thoroughly understand the story and characters to play their parts well
• Story familiarization


  • Script and storyboard help relate what the director wants
  • Good communication skills are needed
• Crew assignment


  Clarify each person's expected contribution and task to perform
• Above the line (ATL) credits

  • Director
  • Executive Producer(s)
  • Producer(s)
  • Screenwriter(s)
  • Cinematographer (Director of Photography)
• Above the line (ATL) credits

  • Responsible for creative development and major decisions about look and feel of the project
• Below the line (BTL) credits

  • Assistant director
  • Production designer(s)
  • Production manager(s)
  • Camera crew members
  • Lighting crew members
  • Costume designer(s)
  • Editor(s)
• Below the line (BTL) credits


  • Responsible for day-to-day work of making the film during pre-production, production, and post-production
• Producer


  Initiates the project, responsible for putting together the production team, looks for funding
• Director


  Head of the whole production, has the vision, makes the most important creative decisions, leads the actors
• Director of Photography (DOP)


  Camera operator, executes shots and camera movements, decides on lighting quality
• Production manager


  Ensures availability of locations and equipment, makes budget and schedule, ensures smooth production
• Sound person


  Ensures good, clear, usable sound, informs director and requests retakes
• Production designer


  Responsible for costumes, props and set up, works with DOP to match director's vision
• Other crew roles

  • Gaffer
  • Grips
  • Production assistant
• Gaffer


  • Helps the lighting person, responsible for lighting and electrical equipment
• Grips


  • Help by moving equipment and props in and out around the set
• Production assistant


  • Work with the production manager on production logistics
• Wrap


  The end of the shooting day
• Stop motion animation


  An animation technique to make a physically manipulated objects appear to move on their own
• Clay - is often used to create the objects and characters because they are easy to reposition and be remolded.This type of animation using clay is called, clay animation or clay-mation
• Stop motion animation has a huge history in the film industry during 1898
• Significant animations in the history of animation

  • The humpty dumpty Circus (1898)
  • Fun in a bakery shop (1902)
• Cut out animation


  A form of stop-motion animation using flat characters, props and backgrounds cut from materials such as paper, card, stiff fabric or photographs
• Lego animation


  Animation created by using Lego toys by moving it and acting like its real in the film