Contributors

Contributors

Type:

Specialists -
Specialists are people with advanced skill sets in particular areas.

Specialists are often hired:

• To overuse highly operations.
• To train, where specialised skills need to be learned in short periods of time.
• To undertake key production roles.

Technical specialists:

In a aerial dogfight involved two fighter planes, specialist pilots would be recruited to flu the planes.
Specialist trainers:
In a Kung-Fu scene a martial arts specialist might be recruited to train actors who have to perform the fight moves in the scene.
Production specialists
Occasionally, a third party specialist nay be recruited into a film department to handle particular types of production work requiring highly specialised technical skills.

Example:
  A drone camera operator might be hired to record aerial footage of a location to establish a setting.

Experts -
 During the research and development stages of a project may producers will recruit experts in specific and particular fields to ensure that representations of the individuals, types, groups, places, activities or events are constructed and conducted in a way that is authentic and accurate.

Example:
War film.
The producer of a war film may recruit historical researchers to make sure that recreations of past events remain within the boundaries of what is generally accepted to be historically correct according to the industry field.


Talent -
 'Talent' on a film are the specialist performers -actors, dancers and singers.
The word 'talent' is often used to refer to A list celebrities and those performers who have been cast in principle roles.
Their achievements and pedigree naturally stem from having developed and honed highly specialist performance skills.

Public -
Occasionally, public bodies and the public itself will be invited to play key role in a production.
A city may enable production by allowing or supporting filming in particular locations within its limits.
The public may be asked to congregate for crowd scenes.

Contributor biographies
A contributor biography is very much as it sounds.

Experts specialists and A list talent who undertake key roles or perform key roles on a production will usually be represented by a bio in any marketing for the film, such as press kits.

Key above-the-line production personnel will also been given biographies in a press folder.

• Producer
• Director
• Screenwriter
• Principle actors