Responsible for technical preparations, including budgeting and scheduling of productions.
The administrator responsible for coordinating the sets, costumes, rehearsal facilities and all physical aspects of a production. Is often the one who negotiates with the various unions representing stage hands, musicians, etc.
Person responsible for co-ordination of audio, lighting and staging requirements, and crew, for any performance. Other responsibilities may include the scheduling of performances, physical placement of equipment and management of relevant health and safety matters.
Instrumental in most principal activities of preproduction and principal photography, the production manager helps coordinate and execute scheduling, budgeting, and script breakdown. Working with the director and producers, the PM also helps coordinate scenic logistics and actor scheduling before and during production. A true utility role, they help assure that all pre/production and activities run as smoothly and on time as possible.
person responsible for supervising and coordinating all of the technical and administrative details of a production.
Individual responsible for the practical matters such as ordering equipment, getting near-location accommodations for the cast and crew, etc.
Assembles the budget, organizes the shooting schedule, authorizes expenditures. He may have an assistant and several secretaries.
The individual under the producer and director who supervises and coordinates all of the business and technical aspects of production.
the main supervisor of the crew in charge of keeping a film project on time and on budget; the PM negotiates all financial and contractual affairs for the project during pre-production, principal photography, and sometimes post production.
AKA: PM Reporting to the film's producer, this person supervises the budget, hires the crew, approves purchase orders & time cards, and generally makes sure all departments are doing their respective jobs within the parameters of the budget.
Makes the business deals, including hotel/housing, crew hiring, equipment rental and budget management. The P.M. works with the A.D. on scheduling and review production reports. The P.M. signs checks.
The Production Manager of a band is in charge of the technical crew. The technical crew moves independently of the band because the technical crew must arrive at the gig location by the morning of the show to start setting up the equipment. The band members usually arrive much later, just before the event itself.
