Crew roles and responsibilites

Producer - Has the overall responsibility of the production as well as ensuring that it is suitable for broadcast.

Director - The director is the main person encharge of the whole production. The director plays such a key role, but through out the show they only stay in the vision control room they never set foot in the studio. The directors job is to give orders to who ever is wearing cans such as the camera operators.

Assistant director - The assistant director works closely to the director, checking that everybody in the control rooms are doing what they need to do correctly.

Floor manager - Runs the studio floor and looks after the audience, and signals them when to clap ect.

Assistant Floor manager - Helps out the floor manager, doing all of the same duties, but who is just an extra pair of hands.

Sound operator - Uses the sound mixer to make sure that the mics are all at the same level and adjusts the levels incase of things like distortion, the sound operator also has a pair of cans to keep in touch with the director and the floor manager.

Lighting controller - Uses the lighting desk to make sure that the lights are all at the right level for each shot.

Vision mixer - Uses the vision mixing panel to cut to different shots that they think are best to be used at different times in the show.

Camera operator - Controls one of the cameras they keep in contact with the director using the cams and the director tells them when their camera is live and gives them pacific shots to get, that work best.

Camera operator assistant - Holds the camera wires so that they don't get damaged or tangled and also so that the camera operator has enough wire to move the tripod if they need to.