[OLAC-credits] Definitions for film-related roles

[Zsuzsanna Lancsak]

Here is a short Hungarian-English list of film terminology: http://www.euro-tv.hu/info-lexikon.htm. Just scroll down to Credits = Stáblista. It's not comprehensive but useful for me. You have to have some knowledge of Hungarian to have an idea what terms you're looking for.

Some of you may know this link as well: http://www.fiafnet.org/publications/Glossary%20of%20Filmographic%20Terms%20%28English%20Version%292008%20revision.pdf from the International Federation of Film Archives. From this document the definition for Producer is "Producer, Production, Produced by. The head of production who bears the ultimate administrative and financial responsibility for a film. In practice, the role of a Producer may be wider and can include creative involvement." The definition for Production manager is "Production Manager, Unit Production Manager, Production Supervisor. The individual who manages all administrative and technical details of the production, from preparing the shooting schedule and negotiating crew and equipment contracts, to approving purchase orders and authorizing the payroll. In units with both a Production Supervisor and Production Manager, the former is usually subordinate to the latter, but may assume some of his or her responsibilities if the Production Manager also acts as the Co-producer."

This FIAF list is based on the Anglo-American film industry but they plan to translate the list into other languages taking into consideration linguistic and structural differences.

Susan

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From: olac-credits-bounces at lists.uoregon.edu [mailto:olac-credits-bounces at lists.uoregon.edu] On Behalf Of Kelley McGrath
Sent: Thursday, April 24, 2014 11:39 PM
To: olac-credits at lists.uoregon.edu
Subject: [OLAC-credits] Definitions for film-related roles

I was asked today if I knew whether and how a producer and a production manager are different. I wasn't really familiar with what a production manager does so I looked at a few sites:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Film_crew#Production This page has a warning at the top that it might not reflect a "worldwide view" and it does seem biased towards contemporary Hollywood film

http://www.pasadena.edu/files/syllabi/lmjang_20857.pdf (describes a "unit production manager" at the bottom of page 1.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/filmnetwork/filmmaking/guide/production/cast-and-crew

http://www.imdb.com/glossary/P

The two things in this context seem to be clearly different. A producer is a high-level position and has more to do with the money. A production manager is someone on the ground managing day-to-day stuff.

Does anyone have any sense of to what degree this distinction carries through to non-U.S. films or non-Hollywood films? Or the degree to which terminology for roles varies from country to country or language to language? From the credits that people are annotating, it does seem like ways of describing common roles can vary by language.

Do you have any go-to sources that you like for film, TV or video terminology?

Kelley
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