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n. (context film English) The group of people, excluding the cast and producers, who are hired by a film company to make a film.
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A movie crew is a group of people hired by a production company for the purpose of producing a film or motion picture. (Except animated films.) The crew is distinguished from the cast as the cast are understood to be the actors who appear in front of the camera or provide voices for characters in the film. The crew is also separate from the producers as the producers are the ones who own a portion of either the film company or the film's intellectual property rights. A film crew is divided into different departments, each of which specializes in a specific aspect of the production. Film crew positions have evolved over the years, spurred by technological change, but many traditional jobs date from the early 20th century and are common across jurisdictions and film-making cultures.
Motion picture projects have three discrete stages: development, production and distribution. Within the production stage there are also three clearly defined sequential phases — pre-production, principal photography and post-production — and many film crew positions are associated with only one or two of the phases. Distinctions are also made between above-the-line personnel (such as the director, the screenwriter and the producers) who begin their involvement during the project's development stage, and the below-the-line "technical" crew involved only with the production stage.
Television crew positions are derived from those of film crew.
Usage examples of "film crew".
Her film crew were sprawled untidily over the front row of seats in the projection room, smoking Camels and drinking Cokes, but Hank, the camera man, had the film clip in the projector ready to run, and they watched it through in silence.
And just as I was dwelling on these happy thoughts outside on the sidewalk, I turned to see two members of the film crew running toward me, with absolutely grief-stricken expressions.
It was perfect, and he was careful to mention that no other film crew had used it before.
Larry figured there was a film crew shooting a Wrigley's commercial round the corner wondering where she had disappeared to.
The film crew began measuring and marking distances to points near the bridge from the dolly and tracks.
A film crew from one of the entertainment news shows was interviewing a particularly hairy protester as they drove by, clearly getting the real scoop about the threatened mine from an actual mountain man.
That was why Liesl proposed that, although the film crew were living at an inn not far down the mountain from Sorgenfrei, Lind and one or two of his immediate entourage should dine with us as often as they pleased, ostensibly so that we could continue discussion of the film as it progressed, but really so that we could become acquainted with Lind.