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Unit 3: Media art
Quick questions on Production roles and processes: WACE Year 12 Media Production and Analysis Unit 3
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What are production roles?Show answer
Even a small crew benefits from defined roles. The director holds the creative vision and guides performance and framing. The camera operator controls composition, focus and movement, realising the storyboarded shots. The sound recordist captures clean audio, which is often harder than capturing good images.
What is capturing for the edit?Show answer
A skilled crew films with the edit in mind. That means capturing coverage: not just the planned shot but enough variety, including alternative angles and cutaways, so the editor has options. It means holding each shot long enough, recording a few seconds before and after the action, and shooting more than one take of important moments. Footage that cannot be cut together is footage wasted, so production craft includes thinking ahead to post-production.
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