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Gaffer Patrick Shellenberger in a production photograph on the set of Dim Sum: A Little Bit of Heart. In film and television crews, the gaffer or chief lighting technician is the head electrician, responsible for the execution (and sometimes the design) of the lighting plan for a production. The gaffer's assistant is the best boy electric.
In a film crew, there are two kinds of best boy: best boy electric (also known as the assistant chief lighting technician) and best boy grip (also known as the 2nd company grip). They are assistants to their department heads, the gaffer (in charge of electricals) and the key grip (lighting and rigging), respectively. [1]
The film set electrical department hierarchy is as follows: Electrical lighting techs (rigging electrical lighting techs) report to the Best Boy (Assistant Chief Lighting Technician or ACLT) who reports to the Gaffer (Chief Lighting Technician or CLT), who is the head of the department.
Gaffer (boss), a British colloquial term for "boss", "foreman" or "old man" Gaffer (filmmaking), the head of the electrical/lighting department; Gaffer District (Corning, New York), a historic district of downtown Corning; Gaffer tape, or Gaffa tape, a type of adhesive tape; Gaffer, a person who blows glass; Gaffer (sailor), of a gaff rig boat
Gaffer tape (also known as gaffer's tape, gaff tape or gaffa tape [1] as well as spike tape for narrow, colored gaffer tape) is a heavy cotton cloth pressure-sensitive tape with strong adhesive and tensile properties. It is widely used in theatre, photography, film, radio and television production, and industrial staging work.
The gaffer is the head electrician at the production set, ... Unlike the film counterpart, a director in television usually refers to the gallery (or control room ...
Film stock made of nitrate, acetate, or polyester bases is the traditional medium for capturing the numerous frames of a motion picture, widely used until the emergence of digital film in the late 20th century. film theory film transition film treatment filmmaking. Sometimes used interchangeably with film production.
Key grip working on set. A key grip is a senior role on movie sets, [1] involved with a wide variety of behind-the-scenes tasks. The key grip supervises grip crews who support camera and lighting technicians; assesses what equipment is necessary for each shooting location; coordinates the transportation of this equipment and its set up; and arranges the general movement and positioning of the ...