Litany of Director

Litany of Director:

Film Director or Director (directs the Cast of Characters & Crew of Production; Departments and Units).

Assistent Film Director or Assistant Director (directs a part of the Cast & Crew).

Director of Photography (directs recording of film shots, all special visual effects included animation, shot- and visual effects-editing).

Director of Audiography (directs recording of film sound, special sound effects, sound- and music-editing).

Art Director (directs making of film sets and sceneries, all special scenic effects included background animation, props, film titles, etc...).

Story Director (directs the narrative process of plot and dramaturgy of a script and storyboard in a play, game and film production).

Technical Director (directs purchase or hire of transport, programming, software and installing all technical and animation equipment).

Sequence Director (directs the animation sequence process).

Casting Director (directs the cast selection process).

Storyboard Director (directs the narrative process of storyboard in a play, game and film production).

General Director (is also Film Producer).

Director of Production (is also Film Director).

Animation Director (directs the process of animation cinematography in a game and film production).

Music Director (directs musical process).

Marketing Director (directs process of marketing, promoting, public relations, press and distribution of film).

Assistant Director of Photography (also Visual Effects Director, Special Effects Director and in titles wrongly named Supervisor).

Assistent Director of Audiography (also wrongly named Sound Designer assists the Director of Audiography, also wrongly named Sound Mixer).

Voice Director (directs the process of voice synchronisation of voice talent actors).

Financial Director (directs the process of payments).

Creative Director (directs the process of product styling and advertisement styling). Is not the Art Director, who directs a.o. designers.

Managing Director is synonymous with Executive Director (directs the staff executives & the line executives, each with decreasing tasks).

Director of Aerial Photography (directs the process of cinematography in the air).

Director of Post-Production. (directs different processes of filmmaking after the actual end of shooting or recording of the script or play).

Director of (Production) Technology (directs the process of technology in the production).

Lighting Director (Chief Lighting Technician or Gaffer (directs the process of lighting in any large production incl. lighting effects).

All lighting technicians are electricians. Chief lighting technician is also lighting designer, as all designers, and visualizes the script/play.

It's a wrap - Amen.

Additions as remarks to litany of Directors...

Crew's endtitle is divided in Departments: General, Film (+Casting), Photography, Audiography (+ Sound, Music), Art, Technical, Marketing.

Crew's endtitle: Animation+Visual+Special+Sound Effects are arranged under earlier mentioned Departments.

Cast's endtitle is divided in five Departments: (Main-)Star - & Co-Star & Special Star -, Feature Star & Extra Star characters (Supporting).

Art director and director of photography emerged after the growth of the crew of production and amount of cameras, sceneries and props.

Assistant director emerged after the growth of the cast of characters; stars, co-stars and feature-stars.

The (film) director, also named director of production, is in fact an one-man-audience and visualizes screenplay, stageplay or teleplay in dramaturgy & polylogues.

The (film) producer, also named director general, creates the general conditions for efficient film making, film promotion and distribution.

Visual effects director, special effects director & technical director are appointed in a big production and work with the other directors.

Casting director, music director and director of audiography, also named sound dir. or recording dir., are appointed in a big production.

The Film Director and Film Producer (latter also General Director towards all Directors) have direction of the entire Film Production.

In summary: Directors work together in each expertise with their Departments and with the Director General to make the Film Production.

Any play has script; which in short (each 1-30 words) describes: who, character, relationship, enter, exit, scene, prop, dramaturgy, time...

..., light, costume, extrinsic state (wet/shiny), sound, music, special effect, although specific hair and make-up is rarely mentioned.

All in all: the crew and cast (often but not necessarily with scripted text lines) design and characterize in spirit and letter the script.

Published 2011/6/26,
Adaptations published here.