If the Director does not want another take, the AD will call "Check the gate" (a signal for the Focus puller or Camera Assistant to confirm that the camera has not malfunctioned during a take, and that there is no hair or fluff in the aperture ("gate") where the film is exposed).
A daily progress report is a filmmaking report that is produced at the end of each shooting day by the First Assistant Director (1AD) and passed to the Production Manager for approval.
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Said also worked as assistant director on numerous film productions, including A Somali Dervish (1983); The Parching Winds of Somalia (1984); Riviera Somalia (1984), a program for the Italian public service broadcaster Radio Televisione Italiana (RAI); and A Man of Race (1987), produced by the LuceSaimon Film Institute.
Payet began his career in the 1970s, and, for a decade, he served as an assistant director on shoots for Philippe Labro and Claude Vidal.
Alan Smart (born October 10, 1963 in Los Angeles, California) is an animator and an animation director best known for his work for SpongeBob SquarePants and as an, assistant director and layout artist with The Simpsons (he also received credit as a director in the season three episode, "Flaming Moe's").
Himbs, son of an Italo-American father and a Canadian mother, was raised in Texas, France, England, Canada, Italy and Spain, and began his career as an assistant director for Léonard Keigel and Lewis Furey.
Epstein appeared in Lloyd Kaufman's 2005 DVD set, Make Your Own Damn Movie! while on the set of Prison-A-Go-Go! The numerous crew positions that Epstein has held include: gaffer, camera operator, editor, assistant director, production manager, director of photography, and special effects assistant.
Chris Larceny directed the films The Game Don’t Differ, M.I Yayo, Money Right and Flo Rida's R.O.O.T.S. Larceny has been the Second Unit Director/Assistant Director for The History Channel series Gangland and Trina: Live and Uncut.
Gordon Hollingshead (January 8, 1892, Garfield, New Jersey – July 8, 1952, Balboa Island, California) was an American movie producer, associate producer and assistant director.
Professionally, Carter also held positions as the assistant director of the YMCA publishing house, based in New York City, and the Department of Community Affairs for LaRoche.
Mohamed Mahmoud Abdel Aziz has also worked as Assistant director in many blockbuster including The BabyDoll Night, Directed by Adel Adeeb, Mohamed then turned to acting and landed many supporting roles in TV shows like shabab ala el hawa and el kota el amia as well as
In 1973 Peter Stephan Jungk worked with the theater of Basel as an assistant director.
Among the team were some of the greatest names of Portuguese culture of the day, such as painter Carlos Botelho (credited as assistant director) and the poet José Gomes Ferreira (editor assistant).
After leaving Argentina Aristarain started working as assistant director in the Arcente cinema, and then in Europe during his short exile for Mario Camus, Giorgio Stegani and Lewis Gilbert before returning to Argentina in 1974, following the death of Argentine president Juan Perón.
At the age of 22 he declined an offer to become the Assistant Director at the Royal Shakespeare Company and instead went on to develop a drama and youth counselling project in South Wales, working with deprived children.
Other films include, Vieillesse ennemie (2008), Antique (2008), and La dérive (2009), in the latter he also worked as an assistant director.
Cropper began his career working as stage manager on the Nickelodeon series Kenan & Kel, All That and The Amanda Show before moving on as an assistant director on the series Cousin Skeeter, Popular, Arli$$, That Was Then, Six Feet Under and Monk .
In 1937 Duff joined Radio Éireann as the station's first music producer and went on to become assistant director of music in 1945.
He is currently the Resident Assistant Director at the Lyric Hammersmith recently assisting Sean Holmes on the revival of Edward Bond's Saved.
Following the "Plasma for Britain" invention, Dr. Drew was named director of the Red Cross blood bank and assistant director of the National Research Council, in charge of blood collection for the United States Army and Navy.
Since discontinuing his religious studies Stensholt primarily worked in various roles with the Australian Public Service in Canberra, most notably as Assistant Director-General of Australia's overseas aid program, AusAID.
In the early 1990s, he moved to New York City where he worked as camera operator and assistant director for Zbigniew Rybczyński.
Cabir has also worked as the Second Unit Director or Assistant Director for Vikram Bhatt's "Shaapit: The Cursed" (2010), ASA Productions & Enterprises.
Dr. Cyrus Wadia is the Assistant Director for Clean Energy & Materials R&D with the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) where he works on Federal policies to accelerate innovation and deployment of advanced material systems for clean energy, national security, and human welfare.
He also worked a assistant director on the television series Grounded for Life, Andy Richter Controls the Universe, Numb3rs and Glee.
He has been followed into the film industry by his son, Trevor Coop (Camera Operator), and his three grandsons, Jason Coop (focus puller), Gareth Coop (Clapper Loader), and Adam Coop (Assistant Director)
Prior to Drawn Together, he worked on Futurama, as Susie Dietter's assistant director and then promoted to a director and directed the episode "Obsoletely Fabulous".
She greatly reduced the number of her own screen appearances, and during the 1930s she worked regularly as an assistant director with Marcel L'Herbier as well as giving lectures and writing film criticism.
Later Giraldi had the opportunity to work as assistant director of, among others, Gillo Pontecorvo, Giuseppe De Santis, Sergio Corbucci and Sergio Leone.
He came to the United States in 1915, and started his film career as an assistant director to Emile Chautard at the World Film Company in Fort Lee, New Jersey.
He is grandson of the famous director Luigi Comencini, after several experiences as assistant director of Antonio Albanese, Luigi Comencini and Cristina Comencini, debut as film director in 2001 with the comedy Se fossi in te.
Through the silent film era, Hollingshead assisted in the direction of thirteen films, and continued as an assistant director until 1934.
After working as an art critic for The San Francisco Chronicle, in 1939 he became an "Assistant director" at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.
Keli Perrin, the current assistant director, is an alumna of the joint-degree program at Syracuse University College of Law and Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs.
After completing his master's degree in economics Kaul began his professional career with the city of Delhi, rising to the positions of chief of probation services and assistant director of social welfare.
From 1980 to 1984, she was an assistant director of the Ragdale Foundation.
He has also worked as Peter Hall’s assistant director on Tamburlaine at the National Theatre of Great Britain in 1976, and when he went to live in New York in 1980, he subsequently worked on Broadway as a librettist for Michael Bennett (of A Chorus Line).
The idea of 'Om Dar-Ba-Dar' came to him on the crowded sets of Richard Attenborough's 'Gandhi', on which he was an assistant director.
She has worked as a high school teacher, a bank officer and as Assistant Director of the Alabama Development Office.
Walz became Assistant Director of Human Resources for the Boston Public Schools in 2000 and continued to work in this position until 2003.
In 1962 he joined NASA Headquarters as Assistant Director of Systems Engineering on the Apollo project and later moved to the Air Force as Technical Director of the Air Force Manned Orbital Laboratory, and Deputy for Requirements to the Assistant Secretary for Research and Development.
An avid film fan from childhood, Warren entered the film industry as a runner on The Millionairess (1960) and as an assistant director (The Dock Brief, 1962) before directing the short film Fragment in 1965.
He worked as assistant director for Vittorio De Sica, performed on the stage, appeared in musicals and dubbed a number of Italian movies for distribution in Iran.
In 1942, Porter left CBS to join the Office of Price Administration as deputy administrator, and then assistant director of the Office of Economic Stabilization under Fred M. Vinson.
Abbott is best remembered as Assistant Director Arthur Ward on the ABC series, The F.B.I., with Efrem Zimbalist, Jr., in the starring role as Inspector Lewis Erskine.
He has also been connected with the film industry for many years, first as an assistant director in art films like Utsav (1984) and Godhuli (1977), later appearing in small character roles in films like, Masoom (1983), Hip Hip Hurray (1984), Mirch Masala (1985), closely followed by Chandni (1989).
In the 1970s he worked as an assistant director, before becoming production manager in such films as The Draughtsman's Contract and Gorky Park, before moving into overall production and executive production.
Besides, Das has also worked as the assistant director in the TV movies Gezocht: Man (2005) and Deining (2004), and served as both the writer and director for the short movie Veilig Rijen (1997).
Rob Boston (born 1962), Assistant Director of Communications at Americans United for Separation of Church and State
In 1943 Thornton became assistant director of the Process Improvement Division of the Tennessee Eastman Corporation at Oak Ridge, Tennessee, where the huge Y-12 plant containing hundreds of calutrons was located.
In 1954, he became the Assistant Director of Research at Ayerst, McKenna & Harrison Ltd. (now Wyeth) in Montreal.
In 2001, Garcia was appointed by Director Robert Mueller as an Executive Assistant Director for the FBI, achieving the second highest position in the Bureau and becoming the highest ranked Hispanic law enforcement officer in the United States at the time of his appointment.
Originally from Kitsap County Huff spent two years as Assistant Director of the elections department at King County, Washington.
After working on many movies as an assistant director, Sreekanth directed his first movie Kotha Bangaru Lokam with Varun Sandesh and Shweta Basu Prasad.
Pleure pas la bouche pleine (1973) (writer, first assistant director)- directed by Pascal Thomas
Director Roy Ward Baker was an assistant director for Alfred Hitchcock on The Lady Vanishes (1938), while cinematographer Erwin Hillier had performed the same function for Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger on I Know Where I'm Going (1945).
He also worked as an assistant director on a number of feature films and as supervising producer on the television series Home James, reality series Denise Richards: It's Complicated, Joan & Melissa: Joan Knows Best? and the Tyler Perry-directed films Meet the Browns, The Family That Preys, Why Did I Get Married Too? and For Colored Girls.
The production was directed by Dean of Drama Gerald Freedman, the assistant director of the original production, and conducted by UNCSA Chancellor and world renown conductor John Mauceri.
He and his brother Augustus arrived in Adelaide on the brig Elizabeth Buckham on 22 June 1843, and took the place of W. C. Darling in the Commisariat Department under administrator Sir Henry E. Fox Young, acting as his private secretary and holding the position of Deputy Assistant Commissary General and Auditor General, was promoted to Assistant Director in 1847, then Private Secretary to the Lieutenant Governor in 1851.
Before becoming a director he has earlier worked as an assistant director with several production houses, with director Rajkumar Santoshi.