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Storyboard artist: creates visual images to help the director and production designer communicate their ideas to the production team.
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Director: is primarily responsible for the storytelling, creative decisions and acting of the film.
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Unit production manager: manages the production budget and production schedule. They also report, on behalf of the production office, to the studio executives or financiers of the film.
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Location manager: finds and manages film locations. Nearly all pictures feature segments that are shot in the controllable environment of a studio sound stage, while outdoor sequences call for filming on location.
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Art director: manages the art department, which makes production sets
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Costume designer: creates the clothing for the characters in the film working closely with the actors, as well as other departments.
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Make-up and hair designer: works closely with the costume designer in addition to create a certain look for a character.
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Choreographer creates and coordinates the movement and dance - typically for musicals. Some films also credit a fight choreographer.
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Production designer: creates the visual conception of the film, working with the art director.
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Production sound mixer: is the head of the sound department during the production stage of filmmaking. They record and mix the audio on set - dialogue, presence and sound effects in mono and ambience in stereo. They work with the boom operator.
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Casting director: finds actors to fill the parts in the script. This normally requires that actors audition.
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Director of photography (DoP): is the cinematographer who supervises the photography of the entire film.
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Director of audiography (DoA): is the audiographer who supervises the audiography of the entire film. This role is also known as either sound designer or supervising sound editor.
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Sound designer: creates the aural conception of the film, working with the supervising sound editor. On some productions the sound designer plays the role of a director of audiography.
