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Assistant Directors
Assistant directors are people who aid and assist the director during the day-to-day shooting on a movie or television show. Assistant directors have a wide range of duties including management of the on site shooting schedule, ensuring that both cast and crew are familiar with and are able to stick to the production schedule, general logistics such as arranging on site catering, preparation of daily call sheets, ensuring that cast and crew have arrived on each day before shooting commences, management of rehearsals, and many other jobs. Assistant direcotrs are also responsible for managing and directing extras, and in some countries assistant directors are legally obliged to serve as the shoots health and safety director and representative to the producer on set as well. An assistant directors role is traditionally someone who helps the director in a variety of ways. Assistant directors were traditionally seen as working their way up the ladder to become fully fledged directors (Alfred Hitchcock and James McTeique for example). In modern times this has become less and less common with the vast majority of assistant directors ending up in production management and production jobs rather than directing. Recently assistant directors have gained much acclaim for the hard work they do in modern productions to free up the director to take a more hands on approach and concentrate on the film. It is now considered a seperate distinct technical profession rather than just as a literal aid to a director.
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