Editing Film crew (section)

== Post-production ==
[[File: Thelma Schoonmaker KVIFF (cropped).jpg|thumb|[[Thelma Schoonmaker]], a frequent collaborator on [[Martin Scorsese]] films, has received eight [[Academy Awards|Academy Award]] nominations for [[Academy Award for Best Film Editing|Best Film Editing]] and has won three times—for ''[[Raging Bull]]'' (1980), ''[[The Aviator (2004 film)|The Aviator]]'' (2004), and ''[[The Departed]]'' (2006), which were all Scorsese-directed films.]]

; [[Film editing|Film editor]]
: The film editor is the creative head of the post production department and is responsible for assembling the picture into a cohesive edited story, with the help of the director. They are primarily responsible for selecting performances of the actors with the director, adjusting the tempo, pace, and structure of the final edited film. In some cases, the editor may help restructure the story of a film differently from the original script to focus a story point, or increase an emotional response from the audience. They are also involved with providing feedback on the sound mix, visual effects, and music with the director. They can also collaborate with the colorist and director of photography to adjust framing for mood or eye trace. There are usually several assistant editors who creatively support the editor as well as manage footage and data for the entire post production team.
; Post-production supervisor
: Post-production supervisors are responsible for the post-production process, during which they maintain clarity of information and good channels of communication between the producer, editor, supervising sound editor, the facilities companies (such as film labs, CGI studios and negative cutters) and the production accountant. Although this is not a creative role, it is pivotal in ensuring that the film's post-production budget is manageable and achievable, and that all deadlines are met. Because large amounts of money are involved, and most of a film's budget is spent during production, the post-production period can often be difficult and challenging.

=== Editorial ===
; [[Negative cutting|Negative cutter]]
: The negative cutter cuts and splices the negatives as directed by the film editor, and then provides the assembled negative reels to the lab for prints (positives for projection) to be made.
; [[Color grading|Colorist]]
: With a [[photochemistry|photochemical]] process, the color timer adjusts the color of the film via printer lights for greater consistency in the film's colors. With a [[digital intermediate]] process, the colorist can use digital tools in manipulating the image and has greater creative freedom in changing the aesthetic of a film.
; [[Telecine]] colorist
: A telecine colorist is responsible for a ''grade'', a look that has been created with a grading system, which adjusts brightness, contrast and color.

=== Visual effects ===
Visual effects commonly refers to post-production alterations of the film's images. The on set VFX crew works to prepare shots and plates for future visual effects. This may include adding tracking markers, taking and asking for reference plates and helping the director understand the limitations and ease of certain shots that will effect the future post production. A VFX crew can also work alongside the special effects department for any on-set optical effects that need physical representation during filming (on camera).

; Visual effects producer
: The visual effects producer works with the visual effects supervisor to break down the script into storyboards, and advises the director as to how she or he should approach the scenes. Together they determine which sequences are to be shot as live action elements, which would work well in miniature, and which (if any) should be computer generated.
; [[VFX creative director|Visual effects creative director]]
: VFX creative directors are very much like production designers, except they direct and supervise the creative side of the film's visual effects. The position is particularly in demand for films with massive amounts of computer generated imagery and scenes.
; [[Visual effects supervisor]]
: The visual effects supervisor is in charge of the VFX crew, working with production and the film's director to achieve the desired in-camera optical effects of the film.
; Visual effects editor
: The visual effects editor incorporates visual effects into the current cuts of live action sequences, producing multiple versions of each shot. Altered scenes are then evaluated by the visual effects supervisor and creative director for aesthetic and technical direction, and by the producers for review and final editing.
; [[Compositing|Compositor]]
: A compositor is a visual effects artist responsible for compositing images from different sources such as video, film, computer generated [[3D computer graphics|3D]] imagery, [[2D computer graphics|2D]] animations, matte paintings, photographs, and text.
; [[Rotoscoping|Rotoscope]] artists / Paint artists
: Rotoscope and paint artists may rotoscope the footage, manually creating [[Matte (filmmaking)|mattes]] for use in compositing. They may also paint visual information into or out of a scene, such as removing wires and rigs, logos, dust busting, scratch removal, etc.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.fxguide.com/fxtips-243.html |title=Art of Roto (compositing and paint) |first=Matt |last=Silverman |date=June 15, 2004 |access-date=September 19, 2010 |publisher=[[Fxguide]] |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100918231459/http://www.fxguide.com/fxtips-243.html |archive-date=September 18, 2010}}</ref>
; [[Matte painting|Matte painter]]
: Matte painters draw and paint entire sets or extend portions of an existing set.

=== Sound and music ===
; [[Sound design]]er
: The sound designer, or supervising sound editor, is in charge of the post-production sound of a movie. Sometimes this may involve great creative license, and other times it may simply mean working with the director and editor to balance the sound to their liking.
; [[Dialogue editor]]
: The dialogue editor is responsible for assembling and editing all the dialog in the soundtrack.
; [[Sound editor (filmmaking)|Sound editor]]
: The sound editor is responsible for assembling and editing all the sound effects in the soundtrack.
; [[Re-recording mixer]]
: The re-recording mixer balances all of the sounds prepared by the dialogue, music and effects editors, and finalizes the film's audio track.
; [[Music supervisor]]
: The music supervisor works with the composer, mixers and editors to create and integrate the film's music. In Hollywood, a music supervisor's primary responsibility is to act as liaison between the film production and the [[music industry|recording industry]], negotiating the use rights for all source music used in a film.
; Composer
: The composer is responsible for writing the [[film score|musical score]] for a film.
; [[Foley (filmmaking)|Foley artist]]
: The foley artist is the person who creates the post-sync sound effects for a film. These sound effects are recorded in sync to picture and are mostly body movements, footsteps or object manipulations. The most common reason for recording these effects live to picture is the fact that such sounds are lost when the dialogue is removed to be replaced by a foreign-language version. Unsatisfactorily recorded sync sound effects can also be replaced with foley effects. Foley artists are also known as foley walkers. Foley is named after its first known practitioner, an early Hollywood sound editor named [[Jack Foley (sound effects artist)|Jack Foley]].
; Conductor / [[Orchestration|Orchestrator]]
: A conductor is supposed to be knowledgeable of special synchronization procedures to conduct the score to an orchestra. An orchestrator is someone who furthers the composer's notes and symbols and fills out the intended notation for the film score.
; Score recorder / mixer
: A score's recorder is someone who records the film score and a score's mixer is someone who mixes the film score.
; [[Preparation (music)|Music preparation]]
: A music preparer is someone who prepares out the score for orchestra performers and who copies out the music.
; [[Music editor (filmmaking)|Music editor]]
: A music editor is someone who edits the film score and works with the composer to make sure it goes with the film.
; Additional orchestration
: Additional orchestration people work with the conductor and orchestrator, and edit the film score.